By this book we’ve established that British socialite turn Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody, is a wife and mother. A series told in her first-person narrative, it's clear this life change is an adjustment of sorts. Especially from the solitary life she led in the first book. Now Amelia, her husband Radcliffe, and their four-year-old son heighten the thrill of her adventures. As well as comedy.
As for the third book, The Mummy Case, Amelia’s infamous archaeologist and Egyptologist husband has been invited to a pyramid excavation. Or, to be clear, he’s prompted dispatched to sniffle among the rubble of an abandoned excavation. Somewhat at arms length, archaeologist in his profession never really wants him around. He’s known as the “Father of Curses,” and is thus better left on the outskirts of any great discovery.
Angered by this, Amelia’s husband decides to take on the "rubble" task anyway. Gathering his wife and son, he ships his family out of England and into Egypt. There may be nothing in and on this barren excavation handed to him, but he’ll make do to prove something to the rejecters of his talents as an archaeologist. He has his pride and dignity after all, as well as a crew of shaky–but fiercely loyal–crewmen.
But matters get choppy when his wife starts snooping around the crime scene of an antiques dealer she recently visited, for a scrap of papyrus. Then an excavated Mummy case goes missing. A suspicious Christian fellowship begins banning citizens together in the nearby village, but with their own secrets of abuse to hide. An equally suspicious gang made up of Egyptian men are boiling for a fight to kick the fellowship out of their village. And, eventually, Emerson, Amelia, and Ramses find themselves buried in the well of a pyramid. While a killer runs loose covering his tracks.
Sounds like a lot, right? Well, it’s an adventure that shouldn’t be missed!