The Deeds of the Disturber

by Elizabeth Peters

Book Overview

Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446353337
• ISBN13: 9780446353335
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Tedious read

I tried this author before and couldn’t make myself finish the book and returned it to the library. This title was a Trift Books deal purchase and sounded quite interesting since it takes place in England not Egypt. However I have reached 56 pages of 289 and find this author to be the most tedious to read I have come upon. I cant force myself to finish and will donate to the the Friends of the Library store.

She is AMAZING!

Elizabeth Peters is one of my favorite mystery authors. Her humor and great character development with unique plots keep my attention easily. This book is great! The whole Amelia Peabody series is wonderful!! I highly recommend to any who love mystery novels and historical fiction books!!!! :)

One of MPM's best

The Deeds of the Disturber is one of the best books in the Amelia Peabody series. Not only is it absolutely hilarious, it marks the debut of a pivotal character (Percy Peabody) who later wreaks havok in the Emersons' lives.The Deeds of the Disturber is a respectful tribute to Wilkie Collins and The Moonstone; MPM gives Collins' Inspector Cuff a new lease on life. This volume is the last "pre-Nefret" book; the tenor and character content of the series changes dramatically in subsequent books. The Deeds of the Disturber is well worth the read, and is one of the few books that actually makes me laugh out loud.

Three Cheers for the Polymath Peabody!

Elizabeth Peters is a raconteur of the finest order. She has a gift for crafting outrageous, hyperbolic characters who speak in sesquipedalian sentences and still remain believable. If that sounds impossible, you haven't read the Amelia Peabody mysteries yet!"The Deeds of the Disturber" is my favourite Peabody novel so far. It is a crazy, sinuous pursuit that shows all of the classic Peabody spirit and wit. The startling character of Ramses is developed more, and the plot is rife with twists and hints and portents. Only don't make the mistake of reading any of the last three Peabody novels (Ape who Guards the Balance, Falcon at the Portal, He Shall Thunder in the Sky) before you read this one. I did, and I think you will enjoy the last three more if you read this one first.

entertaining and chilling adventure for the family

Back in London, the acclaimed British Egyptologists and sleuths, heroine Amelia Peabody and husband Radcliffe Emerson, attempt to solve a case involving the famous mummy's curse, after a British Museum night guard is found dead. Lords, journalists and renowned Egyptologists are among the suspects. Containing accurate Egyptological details, full of action, with a touch of romance and much atmosphere, it is an exciting, entertaining and chilling adventure for all to read.

A Satisfying Amelia Peabody Mystery set in England

In a nice change of pace, Elizabeth Peters makes England the setting for her fifth novel in the Amelia Peabody Emerson series. Set at the turn of the century, Peters has a great eye for period detail, a good knowledge of Egyptology and Egypt, and a marvelous sense of humour.In this mystery the action is centered around a mummy and a murder victim--both in the British Museum. Radcliffe Emerson is furiously working on his manuscript (under deadline), Ramses is struggling to maintain his composure with two young cousins who are staying for a visit, and Amelia is (as always) writing an academic paper, struggling to control her son, and alternately fending off and succumbing to her husbands amorous advances. However, the whole family soon gets involved in trying to find out more about the mysterious mummy and the Egyptian priest who appears and disappears with alarming frequency.I found this mystery a nice change of pace with its different setting and different cast of characters. I particularly liked the introduction of a wonderful butler named Gargery, who relishes every opportunity to get involved in the Emerson family's many escapades. If you're going to England in the near future and the British Museum is on your list of sights to see, be sure to take this book along. I think that you will enjoy seeing how little the interior of that august institution has changed!

Archaeological Adventures (with cats) meets Woman's Suffrage

I was hooked from the first polysyllabic-word peppered sentence. This is real writing! This first-person account exudes the rareified atmosphere of the bowels of museums, bathtub rim-running cats, competing journalists, Egypt and England, spontaneously amorous old-fashioned hubby Emerson, and best of all, precocious young Ramses with his non-school-tainted (today it's called homeschooling) erudite vocabulary and mummification projects, all self-directed and in the vein of his Egyptologist parents. The Deeds of the Disturber was the first Amelia Peabody Mystery I had read. Peters puts me right in that Cairo hotel as Emerson stomps on the blasted newspaper, stands me on the dock in London as the gritty city grime smears my face, and has my feet getting damp in the rain as I follow her walking briskly to The New Scotland Yard a whole lot faster than the fashion-hobbled ladies on the street. Now I'm ordering all of Elizabeth Peters novels including the ones written under another one of her pen names, Barbara Michaels. I wish I knew more people who talked - and wrote - in real life like Peter's dialogue. Meanwhile, I'll escape with a cup of tea or a pint of Stout and her Amelia Peabody books.