A review by sjgochenour
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters

5.0

I enjoyed the reread; Peabody and Emerson are two of my favorite fictional characters. That being said, Peters was writing her idea of a progressive Victorian couple — which is to say, bearing a whole host of condescending and colonialist attitudes toward Egypt and Egyptians. It’s hard to say what’s supposed to be portraying the 19th century and what’s an artefact of the 1980s.