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2.5
These are easy and quite fun, but I didn't really care about the mystery; and the son, Rameses, is annoying. I'll carry on for now though. ...more
These are easy and quite fun, but I didn't really care about the mystery; and the son, Rameses, is annoying. I'll carry on for now though. ...more
The friend who recommended me these books talked up Ramses a lot. I didn't expect to like him and thought I'd resent his intrusion into the Peabody/Emerson dynamic. I have never been happier to be 100% wrong. I love this family.
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The third, and weakest of the first few of this amusing and entertaining series about Amelia Peabody, our amateur (to start with) Egyptologist excavator and her husband Ratcliffe Emerson (the greatest Egyptologist of all time according to his wife).
Why? Although their precocious very young son, nicknamed Ramses, plays an engaging part in the action, their is this time a too restricted cast of characters (and therefore suspects), mostly too unlikeable, for the whodunnit to take wing.
Nonetheless, ...more
Why? Although their precocious very young son, nicknamed Ramses, plays an engaging part in the action, their is this time a too restricted cast of characters (and therefore suspects), mostly too unlikeable, for the whodunnit to take wing.
Nonetheless, ...more
Sep 05, 2012
Leslie
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2019 reread via Recorded Books audiobook narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
Ramses really comes into his own in his first trip to Egypt :)
Ramses really comes into his own in his first trip to Egypt :)
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