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Sleuthing the sahara: Elizabeth Peters (creator of the best-selling Amelia Peabody series) is a Grand Master mystery writer and has a PhD in Egyptology. She also has a passion for vintage clothes. Would you expect less? (Women to know).

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From: Victoria
Date: 20020701
Author:Slung, Michele

THOUGH I HAVE HAD NO ADVENTURES, I feel capable of them." This lovely, hopeful sentence -- one of my favorites in all literatures -- was uttered back when mystery fiction, not to mention feminism, was still in its infancy The speaker was the genteel amateur sleuth Miss Amelia Butterworth, introduced in Anna Katharine Green's 1897 novel, The Affair Next Door. She was to be a prototype for the many curious females who would follow their intuitions through the pages of crime stories for years to come.

Today, however, more than a century later, only one heroine named Amelia ...

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