High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Amelia Peabody series is a series of nineteen mystery novels and one non fiction companion volume written by Elizabeth Peters, featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom the series is named. The novels blend satire (mostly of the adventure novel, such as written by H. Rider Haggard), mystery, romance, and comedy. The series spans a thirty-eight-year period from 1884 to 1923. Most of the books are primarily set in Egypt, with some installments including scenes set in England and Gaza. Of the in the series, only two do not take place in Egypt at all: (Deeds of the Disturber), set entirely in England, and A River in the Sky, set mostly in Ottoman-era Palestine.