by Elizabeth Peters · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253147084
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«La onzième plaie d'Égypte» is the mystery novel by Elizabeth Peters, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (440 pages, in French).
Amelia Peabody, her husband Emerson and their son Ramses return to England to rest from their excavations in Egypt, but the curse of the pharaohs seems to pursue them. At the British Museum, a night watchman is found dead next to the sarcophagus of a mummy from the Nineteenth Dynasty, and the family will have to get involved in a sinister intrigue that will only be the beginning of a wider machination.
Fifth instalment of the Amelia Peabody series, originally published in 1978 under the title «The Deeds of the Disturber».
Ideal for readers of historical crime fiction and mysteries set in Victorian Egypt, with archaeologist Amelia Peabody as the protagonist.
Barbara Louise Mertz, known professionally as Elizabeth Peters and as Barbara Michaels, was an American author. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. She was best known for her mystery and suspense novels, including the Amelia Peabody book series.
