Evelyn Emerson - Character

Character

Evelyn appears a contrast to Amelia in every way: fair where Amelia is dark, demure where Amelia is direct. She dotes on her children and her husband, and has a generous heart - many of her maidservants are down-on-their-luck girls who have been thrown out of other establishments or fallen on hard times.

Yet underneath, she has nerves of steel and a ruthlessly logical mind. In The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, even Amelia, who is used to women being underestimated, is stunned to read a letter account of Evelyn subduing a burglar in her home with a heavy parasol of the kind Amelia herself carries, and to hear Evelyn proposing a possible solution to the mystery that Amelia herself overlooked.

Amelia Peabody Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters
Fiction
  • Crocodile on the Sandbank
  • The Curse of the Pharaohs
  • The Mummy Case
  • Lion in the Valley
  • Deeds of the Disturber
  • The Last Camel Died at Noon
  • The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
  • The Hippopotamus Pool
  • Seeing a Large Cat
  • The Ape Who Guards the Balance
  • The Falcon at the Portal
  • He Shall Thunder in the Sky
  • Lord of the Silent
  • The Golden One
  • Children of the Storm
  • Guardian of the Horizon
  • The Serpent on the Crown
  • Tomb of the Golden Bird
  • A River in the Sky
Non-fiction
  • Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
Cast
  • Amelia Peabody
  • Radcliffe Emerson
  • Ramses Emerson
  • Nefret Emerson
  • Sethos
  • Evelyn Emerson
  • David Todros
  • List of Amelia Peabody characters

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