Lion in the Valley

Summary

Amelia Peabody, archaeologist and woman extraordinaire, should have greeted the approaching excavation season with transports of joy. Nothing in the world could compare with exploring the muddy, musty corridors of some bat-infested pyramid. And at Dahshoor, to which she was headed, there existed some particularly fine specimens.

But Amelia, accompanied by her quixotic husband Emerson and Ramses, their elusive son, feels a nameless foreboding as the ship that bears them across the azure waters of the Mediterranean heads toward Egypt.

Perhaps it has something to do with what transpired the last time they investigated the ruins of the Black Pyramid. On that infamous occasion they came face-to-face with Sethos, that chameleon-like villain otherwise known as the Master Criminal.

It is inevitable that the Master Criminal should come face-to-face with Amelia Peabody again, but this time he is after Amelia herself!