Children of the Storm
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Children of the Storm is the 15th in a series of mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody
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Meanwhile, the Emersons meet up with a Justin FitzRoyce, a young person with a strange mental malady, and his companion, who turns out to be Maryam, daughter of Sethos, fallen on hard times. Amelia tries to befriend Maryam but finds that there is more to her and Justin's relationship than meets the eye.
Along the way, the Emerson family is dogged by a series of mysterious events ranging from strange pranks to near-fatal accidents.
As the head of the Service arrives to take possession of the treasure for transport to Cairo, Nefret is captured by the criminal gang intent on stealing the treasure, as is Emerson when he impetuously comes to rescue her. The final chase scene has Amelia, Rameses, Sethos, Selim, Daoud, Cyrus, Walter, and Bertie racing down-river armed to the teeth to rescue Nefret and Emerson, and is unlike any other scene in the Amelia series.
and Amelia
Emerson, Walter and Evelyn Emerson
, Ramses
and Nefret Emerson
and their children David John and Charla, Sennia Emerson, David and Lia Todros and their children Dolly and Evie, Sethos
, and Maryam. It is also in this book that Sethos finally reveals his given name (Seth), to Evelyn.
Amelia Peabody
Amelia Peabody Emerson is the protagonist of the Amelia Peabody series, a series of mystery novels, written by author Elizabeth Peters. Peabody is married to Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and has one biological child, Walter "Ramses" Peabody Emerson, who provides a parallel voice in many of the...
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Explanation of the novel's title
The title is an excerpt from an ancient Egyptian horoscope:- "The day of the children of the storm. Very dangerous. Do not go on the water this day."
Plot summary
The 1919 season opens with the Vandergelts and Emersons packing the God's Wives treasures found (in the previous book) for Cyrus Vandergelt by his adopted son Bertie. Just before the Service d'Antiquités representative comes to inspect their work, several items disappear together with the conservator Cyrus had hired on SethosSethos (Peabody mysteries)
Sethos is the nom de guerre of the shadowy "Master Criminal" in the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels.-Role in the Novels:He is first encountered in The Mummy Case, as the mastermind of an organized gang of thieves attempting to steal antiquities from Dahshoor, in which he is partially foiled...
's recommendation. The conservator's skeleton is found later in the desert, without the objects.
Meanwhile, the Emersons meet up with a Justin FitzRoyce, a young person with a strange mental malady, and his companion, who turns out to be Maryam, daughter of Sethos, fallen on hard times. Amelia tries to befriend Maryam but finds that there is more to her and Justin's relationship than meets the eye.
Along the way, the Emerson family is dogged by a series of mysterious events ranging from strange pranks to near-fatal accidents.
As the head of the Service arrives to take possession of the treasure for transport to Cairo, Nefret is captured by the criminal gang intent on stealing the treasure, as is Emerson when he impetuously comes to rescue her. The final chase scene has Amelia, Rameses, Sethos, Selim, Daoud, Cyrus, Walter, and Bertie racing down-river armed to the teeth to rescue Nefret and Emerson, and is unlike any other scene in the Amelia series.
Characters in "Children of the Storm"
This book is notable in that the entire Emerson clan is present: ProfessorRadcliffe Emerson
Professor Radcliffe Archibald Emerson , M.A. Ox., D.C.L. , L.L.D. , F.B.A., FRS, FRGS, MAPS, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Member of the American Philosophical Society, is one of the main characters in the Amelia Peabody series by mystery author Elizabeth Peters...
and Amelia
Amelia Peabody
Amelia Peabody Emerson is the protagonist of the Amelia Peabody series, a series of mystery novels, written by author Elizabeth Peters. Peabody is married to Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and has one biological child, Walter "Ramses" Peabody Emerson, who provides a parallel voice in many of the...
Emerson, Walter and Evelyn Emerson
Evelyn Emerson
Evelyn Emerson is a fictional character from the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters. She is the closest friend, and later sister-in-law, of the protagonist, fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody.-Personal History:...
, Ramses
Ramses Emerson
Walter Peabody Emerson, known universally as “Ramses,” is a fictional character in the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels set in Victorian Egypt and England, written by author Elizabeth Peters. He is the son of Egyptologists Amelia Peabody and her husband, Professor Radcliffe Emerson...
and Nefret Emerson
Nefret Emerson
Nefret Emerson is a fictional character from a series of mystery novels written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody....
and their children David John and Charla, Sennia Emerson, David and Lia Todros and their children Dolly and Evie, Sethos
Sethos (Peabody mysteries)
Sethos is the nom de guerre of the shadowy "Master Criminal" in the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels.-Role in the Novels:He is first encountered in The Mummy Case, as the mastermind of an organized gang of thieves attempting to steal antiquities from Dahshoor, in which he is partially foiled...
, and Maryam. It is also in this book that Sethos finally reveals his given name (Seth), to Evelyn.