Amelia Peabody Series - Future of The Series

Future of The Series

In a 2003 book talk at the Library of Congress, Elizabeth Peters revealed that her overall plan for the Amelia Peabody series was to continue the series chronologically through World War I and end with events surrounding the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. This stated goal was accomplished with the publication of Tomb of the Golden Bird in 2006. The events of that book wrapped up most of the series' loose plot lines, although it did not include a definitive ending to the series itself.

In the same talk, Peters suggested that any future installments after this point would "fill in the gaps" in the series' chronology, as she has done with Guardian of the Horizon and A River in the Sky which fill part of the four-year gap between The Ape Who Guards the Balance and The Falcon at the Portal.

In the final volume of the Vicky Bliss series, The Laughter of Dead Kings, the fictional editor of Amelia Peabody's journals makes a cameo appearance while looking for more of Amelia's journals. By the end of the book, she has acquired at least three more of the "missing journals" to document the adventures of the Peabody-Emersons. While this appeared to suggest the Peters's intention to continue the series (by far her most commercially successful), only one volume has appeared since and there have been no indications from Peters or her publisher that any further installments are forthcoming.