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Summary: 3rd in the series, I am hooked on Amelia!
Review: Amelia gets better and better. In the previous books we've seen her acumen for mysteries and archaeology and she just keeps improving her investigation and excavation skills in this 3rd book in the series.You are also reacquainted with Radcliffe Emerson(her husband, intellectual equal, and true partner). Their son, Walter Peabody Emerson (known as Ramses) comes along with them on the dig where he acquires a highly intelligent Egyptian brindled cat whom he promptly names Bastet after the Egyptian cat goddess. Ramses is extremely precocious, very funny, singularly stubborn, and always trying to find the loophole in his parents' edicts. He is a great contribution to the cast. We still get to see the great relationship between Emerson and Peabody (as they affectionately refer to each other) as well as their interaction with Ramses. Amelia doesn't seem like a very demonstrative mother, but her love for her son is there. She's the kind of person who takes for granted that her family knows she loves them and prefers to show it through actions instead of words. (In the latest couple of additions to this series, we see her affection come out into the open more.) Once again, Peters provides an intriguing mystery along with more great information on the early days of Egyptian archaeology and Ancient Egyptian culture. I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because I got lost a couple of times and had to go back and trace some of the story elements more than once in order to follow what was going on with the mystery. However, that does not mean this wasn't a great book.
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Summary: Love this series but not this book
Review: are giving her fits! First there is her handsome, brilliant husband, Radcliffe Emerson, the emminent Egyptologist who finds himself once again being dragged away from his work by Amelia's escapades. Then the mysterious Master Criminal again wrecks havoc in the lives of the Emersons and their friends. The most exasperating 'man' in Amelia's life, however, turns out to be her precocious son 'Ramses'. By the time most children are struggling with their ABCs Ramses can both speak and read several languages including Arabic and was well versed in the family vocation of Eqyptology. The Emersons set out for another season digging for ancient Eqyptian artifacts but soon find themselves swept up by a series of more modern mysteries and adventures. The most charming aspects of this series are the hilarious Emerson family. Amelia and her tendancy to overestimate her abilities, and Emerson and his tendancy to underestimate them, are both confounded by their son's talents to keep them both struggling to keep up. Ramses has a speech impediment (affection?) that the author uses, I believe, to remind the reader that he is very young. The first few times it appears this device is rather cute but it does begin to wear thin after a time. He does outgrow it later in the series so bear with it for now. His precociousness brings a smile to anyone who can recall putting one over on an adult and bit of chagrin to any parent who has had a child put one over on them. I love this series, particularly watching the characters grow and change with the times. The mysteries are intriguing, the action exciting and the comedy is delightful.
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Summary: Entertaining story, with one big distraction
Review: Generally speaking I've enjoyed the Amelia Peabody series, and I was fairly entertained by this one as well, with one major drawback: the character Ramses' dialog. His speech is baby talk (spelled phonetically) throughout the book, something I found extremely distracting for its saccharine sweetness. Unfortunately, Ramses is a prominent character, so his speech cannot be avoided easily. Beyond the fact that the baby talk made the book difficult to read, I found it mildly insulting. I felt like the author didn't trust me to "get" the fact that Ramses is both very young and very intelligent, so the baby talk was there to continually remind me. I think Peters should have trusted her readers to pick up on Ramses' personality characteristics without having to be clubbed over the head with them every time the boy opened his mouth.
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Summary: Amusing mystery series with an Egyptian setting
Review: I actually would rate this 3.5 stars, but you don't get that option here, so I bumped it up to 4. Amelia Peabody is an irrepressible archaeologist, married to the Father of Curses, the headstrong Radcliffe Emerson. Together with their incredibly precocious son Ramses, they set off for a dig in Egypt, which falls far short of their hopes for discovery of artifacts and antiquities. Along the way they cross paths with the Master Criminal of Egypt, and set about solving the mystery of The Mummy Case. Full of adventure, mystery and humor the third book in the series gives us our first introduction to the too clever for his own good Ramses. The book looses half a star, because of Ramses speech impediment, which drove me to distraction. Outside of that it was a fast and clever story, and if Amelia Peabody ever meets Indiana Jones, I am not sure who would come out the winner.
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Summary: More Fun Than the First Two
Review: I enjoyed this Amelia Peabody story more than the first two. I found that it was more suspenseful, and there seemed to be really two story threads and two mysteries for Amelia and Emerson to solve. I also enjoyed their precocious little son (although the speech imdediment did get a bit tiresome). I am enjoying this series mainly because this man and his wife are both such strong and likeable characters who play against each other so well. There are a lot of laughs in this one as there usually is in an Amelia Peabody mystery. There's lot of Egyptian lore, and enough tension to keep your interest. Amelia and her Emerson set out to expose an organized group of thieves that are stealing antiquities, and supposedly these thieves are killing people along the way. Loads of fun.
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Summary: I hate to say this but...
Review: I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone! While I absolutely love the author's style and the setting, there is too much sex in this story...I didn't feel right reading it! No, the scenes are not very explicit, but they are explicit enough and happen every otehr chapter or so. If you are a Christian or have any morals at all, do not read this book. I hate to say all this because otherwise, I enjoyed this book.
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Summary: Love this series but not this book
Review: I'm a great supporter of the Amelia Peabody series but this one really bored me in the second half. The "mystery" was just dull and the secondary characters not interesting. I thought Curse of the Pharoahs was much better. I agree also that Ramses' "baby talk" was distracting. It gets three stars because as usual, the main characters are still hilarious and lovable. The first part of the book is great.
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Summary: A Bungling, but Nevertheless, Entertaining Mess
Review: The Mummy Case is a story that goes so many places all at the same instance! I so wanted Amelia and Radcliffe to give over their pride and just admit to each other who they thought the culprit was & why, just so that I would know what was going on in this tangled story! I'll try not to reveal too much of the confusion, for that might betray who the final culprit(s) are. This third installment of the Amelia Peabody-Emerson journals starts out w/Emerson trying to secure the excavation at Dahshoor. However M. de Morgan has already decided to excavate there himself & instead gives the Emersons the pathetic sight of Mazghunah. Unfortunately, in the activities preceding their move to Mazghunah, Peabody has a midnight excursion that leaves one antiquities dealer dead. However, earlier that same day, Amelia chanced to overhear a conversation he was having where mention was made of "The Master". Thus Amelia's detective instincts are vastly prickled and she is out to find this Master Criminal who seems to be in charge of the increase in illegal antiquities trade that has recently come about. What follows are more murders, more attempts at murder, more attempts at kidnapping, more ridiculous and hilarious Ramses' adventures, more attempts at Peabody and Emerson outsmarting the other and a whole new slew of interesting and bizarre characters. When you read this story, you will finally find yourself out of the murk of the plot in the last chapter or two when the not so logical motive of the murderer is revealed (logical of course in the mentally challenged mind of the murderer) and everything that happened is explained. I write this review after having already read book four in this series, and i have to say, book four is a serious improvement from book 3. i liked this book all right but the story was v. bungling and all over the place. and so many times did i want to yell at Amelia - "Listen to your son!!! He has something important to say!!!" i know he's annoying & goes on & on & on but he is very smart and is able to see things from a different perspective that she could benefit from. And response to the comment about there being too much sex in this novel. I don't know why your (self-)righteous feathers were ruffled, all the HINTED and INSINUATED sex occurred between two people who are married. and the last i heard, that was a righteous and pure expression approved of by God between two people who have committed themselves to each other through the bonds of matrimony. and really, if you are offended by what you think is a lot of sex in this book, should you really be reading a book that provides as part of its entertainment murder, deceit, thievery and many things unrighteous???
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Summary: Again, I Loved It
Review: This third book in the Amelia Peabody Emerson series is a great one. In it, the Peabody Emersons are once again headed to Egypt for the digging season. This time, however, they (and we) also get to me their son, called Ramses, as he also joins them. The mystery of this one is the usual mix of Egyptology, dastardly deeds, romance, and the indomitable Amelia. The addition of the talkative, often times know-it-all, adventurous Ramses is great; however, the ability of this child to know as much, if not more, than his parents is it hard to believe at time, but this is after all fiction. As usual, Ms. Peters leaves us with a better understanding of the beauty that is Egyptian history -- the woman knows her stuff. The great thing about this book is that there were times when I was actually on the edge of my seat, furiously reading the pages in order to find out what happened next. All in all, a great read and a lot of fun.
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Summary: I'm Hooked
Review: To be honest, I was not a mystery fan until I was given a stack of Elizabeth Peters novels as a birthday present. I gave the first three a try, because they are about Egyptology, something I am extremely interested in. Now that I have finished 'The Mummy Case,' I am hooked. Gotta go get more Egypt mysteries. The charachters in all of the books are very likeable, especially if you are interested in archaeology and history, as my hubby and I are. (I could almost imagine us in place of Emerson and Peabody during some of their arguments.) There were also plenty of humorous breaks to the suspense and drama, and just enough action to speed you through the end. Even Ramses (and I know I'm going to get flack for saying this,) becomes more likeable toward the end of the book, and his presence was initially my least favorite part of the book. That is my only real nitpick though, and I look foreward to reading more novels in this series.
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