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The Amelia Peabody Series
The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Amelia is preparing to chain herself to the fence of Mr. Romer, a prominent anti-suffrage member of parliament and an avid collector of Egyptian Antiquities, when she witnesses a strange incident.  A delegation of suffragettes proceed up through the gate and up the path to the front door to present a petition. 

To her surprise the group is allowed in.  In a moment, Mr. Romer appears to say he will receive the petition and speak to the delegation.  The demonstration breaks up but  Amelia remains looking thoughtfully at the house.  She leaves, holding the distinct impression that the figure at the door was familiar, and it wasn't Mr. Romer, it was Sethos, The Master Criminal, and Master of Disguise.

The sensation of the daring robbery has barely subsided when Amelia, who is lured out under the pretense of an emergency meeting of the suffragettes, is bodily taken from her cab and shoved in a van in a kidnap attempt.  Emerson and Ramses arrive in time to rescue her, but it is a mystery as to who would want to do such a thing.

Considering recent events, even the prospect of a dull season looking into every previously explored tomb in the Valley of the Kings looks appealing, and so the family pack up and leave for Egypt.  Walter and Evelyn see them off at the dock, but they decline to let Lia travel to Egypt  just yet.

In Egypt they are once again in the capable and caring hands of Abdullah and his extended family.  But the Emerson family knows how to make it's own trouble.

Ramses and David begin living a double life, archaeologists  by day in the Valley of the Kings and Ali the Rat and his friend by night in the alleyways of Luxor. They are after illegal antiquities, but it soon becomes apparent that someone is after them. 

This book introduces Horus,  Nefret's irascible cat, Catherine Vandergelt, nee Mrs. Catherine Jones, Lia Emerson,  and Abdullah's family members.