Barbara L. reviewed on 10/24/2019 + 988 more book reviews

The undauntable Amelia Peabody, her irrepressible husband Emerson, and their forbiddingly precocious son Ramses, were pleasantly discussing their next Egyptian expedition when a rather bulky, white-faced young man burst into the drawing room and promptly collapsed at Amelia's feet. The gentleman-who later would prove rather prone to collapsing-was one Reginald Forthright, and he came bearing a particularly chilling story. It seems that 14 years before. Forthright's uncle-the famous explorer Willoughby Forth - had disappeared into the Nubian desert along with his beautiful child bride, never to return. Now a mysterious letter from an unknown source has convinced Forthright's disconsolate grandfather that his son and daughter-in-law are still alive. In spite of Forthright's protests to the contrary, the senior Willoughby is intent upon persuading the two archaeologists to find them. How Amelia's eccentric little family are transported from the relative calm of Victorian England to a lost kingdom burled deep in the heart of the Sudan, is a sometimes perilous, sometimes hilarious, always entertaining adventure.

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