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Amelia Peabody

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Amelia Peabody	comment	Spoiler note: While most troping involves spoilers to a certain degree, this page as it's currently laid out has major mid- to late-series arc spoilers out in the open! If you hate having your mysteries spoiled, stop reading after the next couple of paragraphs. You have been warned!A historical mystery series written by Elizabeth Peters.Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson are Happily Married Victorian Egyptologists. They are also Amateur Sleuths. They also have a tendency to consider themselves above the law, in that they don't often bother to call the police while battling criminals, as the Police Are Useless. Amelia, in fact, is generally scornful of cops, ignoring the fact that police must follow rules of evidence she doesn't consider binding on her. She frequently says Scotland Yard would solve more cases if a woman ran it — not talking about getting both male and female perspectives, but about replacing the male way of thinking with the female.The Amelia Peabody series starts in Victorian Britain but runs through World War I and into The Roaring '20s. Over this time, she and her husband have founded a Badass Family and Quirky Household, the Emersons, that is the core of a bi-ethnic (English/Egyptian) example of The Clan. In addition to Peabody and Emerson, the Emerson family includes: Their son, Walter "Ramses" Emerson, who appears in the second book as a Kid Detective which he remains until he's a Teen Genius (in both archeology and undercover work), going on to be a spy in WWI, then to marry Nefret Forth (see next) after a period as an Unlucky Childhood Friend, passing through a Will They or Won't They? to emerge as a Victorious Childhood Friend. He and Nefret are Mindlink Mates and form a second Battle Couple. Nefret Forth is the only child of an archeologist who died discovering a Lost World oasis where a remnant of ancient Egyptian civilization lingers. This was Peters' Shout-Out to the various lost worlds of H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Nefret was adopted by the Emersons and went through a long time when she thought her relationship to Ramses was Like Brother and Sister, while Ramses pined in silence. Nefret is just as strong-willed and intelligent as her husband and in-laws, and rich and beautiful to boot. And a Medical Doctor.Each of these four main characters has an Egyptian nickname, bestowed on them by the locals, a particular interest within Egyptology, and an edge of some kind that makes them a bit super-normal: Amelia is "Sitt Hakim" ("Lady Doctor"). (She is also called "Peabody" by her husband; she always calls him "Emerson". If he calls her Amelia, it means he's really angry with her.) Her favorite topic is pyramids. Her edge is the dreams of or from her dead friend Abdullah. Emerson is "Abu Shitaim" ("Father of Curses"), earned by his short temper and talent with Arabic invective. His favorite topics are tombs and temples. His edge is sheer strength and even more endurance. Ramses is "Akhu el-Efreet" ("Brother of Demons"). (Of course, "Ramses" is already a nickname; his real name is Walter.) His favorite topic is inscriptions and the study of the ancient Egyptian language. His edge is his extraordinarily sharp hearing and vision. "The Brother of Demons can hear a whisper across the Nile." Nefret is "Nur Misur" ("Light of Egypt"), probably in tribute to her hair and her vibrancy. Her favorite topic is mummies, which chimes well with her medical degree. Her edge is a psychic link with Ramses that lets her know when he is in imminent danger; it also spills out into a general sympathy that lets her tame horses, dogs, and cats, feed sparrows from her hand at a cafe table, and may be another reason for her widespread popularity with the Egyptian poor.The main characters complicate their investigations for themselves by (1) sometimes competing to see who can solve it first, and (2) almost always keeping information from each other to protect the others from rushing into the danger that they themselves feel must be investigated. As a result, they spend a lot of time rescuing each other.There are a great many repeating characters, including many historical archeologists. Among the important supporting characters are: Sethos, Seth Emerson, who would be an Evil Uncle if he were actually evil; he is Emerson's bastard half-brother, starts the series as a professional tomb robber, gets a crush on Amelia, who reforms him, and goes on to become a British secret agent, all before he reveals the relationship to Peabody and Emerson. Sethos has a way of turning up unannounced to drag in new plot complications. Abdullah ibn Hassan al Wahhab, the foreman on the digs. His son Selim takes over from him eventually. His brother Daoud is a Gentle Giant. His grandson David is taken in by the younger Emersons, becomes a famed illustrator, and marries Walter and Evelyn's eldest daughter Amelia "Lia", which her parents initially object to, but which the rest of the family (except for Amelia, though she had not realized this until then) supports, and they come around. His daughter-in-law Fatima becomes the Emerson's housekeeper. Abdullah's family is the hook on which to hang issues of racism and imperialism, which the Emersons are fiercely against.The Emersons, both female and male, are also fierce proponents of equal rights for women. Some of the stories touch on the early feminist movement in England, and Amelia and Nefret are always trying to improve the lot of Egyptian women.The Emersons' career is intertwined in the real history of Egypt and Egyptian archeology. The latest books put them on the outskirts of Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen.The Amelia Peabody books, with the dates when they are set, are: 1884-85, Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975) 1892-93, Curse of the Pharaohs (1981) 1894-95, The Mummy Case (1985) 1895-96, Lion in the Valley (1986) Summer 1896, Deeds of the Disturber (1988) 1897-98, The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991) 1898-99, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (1992) 1899-1900, The Hippopotamus Pool (1996) 1903-04, Seeing a Large Cat (1997) 1906-07, The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998) 1907-08, Guardian of the Horizon (2004, published out of sequence) Summer-Fall 1910, A River in the Sky (2010, published out of sequence) 1911-12, The Falcon at the Portal (1999) 1912, The Painted Queen (2017, published out of sequence) 1914-15, He Shall Thunder in the Sky (2000) 1915-16, Lord of the Silent (2001) 1916-17, The Golden One (2002) 1919-20, Children of the Storm (2003) 1922-23, The Serpent on the Crown (2005) 1922-23, Tomb of the Golden Bird (2006)
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Amelia Peabody / int_111990bc	comment	Stroke the Beard: Archeologist Radcliffe Emerson had a beard when he met Amelia, but not after they married; he still strokes his chin meditatively as an action-equivalent to a Catchphrase. The habit has even been picked up by other characters, including his daughter-in-law.
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Amelia Peabody / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Amelia Peabody / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: After finding Ramses spying on him late in the book, Percy does this to him.
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Amelia Peabody / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Amelia Peabody / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In The Falcon at the Portal Nefret asks Lia in a letter, "What could Percy do to hurt Ramses?" They find out very quickly when he arranges to have his daughter brought to the family, claiming Ramses is the girl's father.
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Amelia Peabody / int_164497e1	type	Knew It All Along
Amelia Peabody / int_164497e1	comment	Knew It All Along: Amelia and Emerson both like to claim to be better at detective work than they actually are: In The Curse of the Pharaohs, most of the "deductions" Emerson claims to have made were actually things he had no idea about until the killer confessed. In The Deeds of the Disturber, Amelia gives The Summation to their assembled friends, explaining why one person and one person only could be the mastermind behind the murders. When she and Emerson are in bed together later, however, they both confess that they had both suspected the wrong person right up until The Reveal.
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Amelia Peabody / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Amelia Peabody / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The series provides a fantastic example; the narrator's depth stems from her unreliability as a narrator, which can be due to either omission or equivocation. She reports her perceptions, but despite her vaunted skills in understanding people, she routinely misses the actual meaning of events; for example, when people speaking with her begin coughing, she totally misses their disguised laughter and offers them cough drops. She also is often oblivious to her own viewpoints and prejudices, and even when she is aware of them, pride stops her from relating them to the reader. Victorian sensibilities also prevent her from discussing delicate subjects.
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Amelia Peabody / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Amelia Peabody / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In several of the novels.
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Amelia Peabody / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Amelia Peabody / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Amelia and Emerson intend Ramses and Nefret to be (adoptive) brother and sister. Ramses, however, never saw it that way; despite this, he won't tell Nefret until he has some indication she feels the same. After a great deal of angst on his part, Nefret eventually comes around.
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Amelia Peabody / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Amelia Peabody / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: During the final chapter, Nefret attacks an already-wounded Percy this way, clutching her knife in both hands and bringing it down into his back. It's later revealed that it was Sethos' bullets and not her stab wound that killed him though.
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Amelia Peabody / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Amelia Peabody / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Dr. Radcliffe Emerson, the Egyptologist-detective husband of Amelia Peabody, is always short-tempered and becomes absolutely volcanic at any threat to his family. Since he is regularly described by his narrator-wife as "Herculean" in build, the results are impressive. For that matter, his son Ramses inherits this trait. Shades into Helicopter Parents with regard to Nefret sometimes; not so much about sex as about shielding her from the world's ugliness. He'll say she shouldn't be permitted to examine a gruesome corpse, ignoring the fact that she's a fully trained doctor and would politely and lovingly tell him where to stuff his objections. At least once after she and Ramses married, Ramses got a bit irritated by Emerson's attitude effectively implying that Ramses didn't do a proper job of looking after her; he was rather maliciously amused when Emerson became embarrassed to realize Nefret was taking a bath in the next room.
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Amelia Peabody / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Amelia Peabody / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: This is Amelia's reaction at the very end of the book when Ramses and Nefret's twins Charlotte and David John speak proper English for the first time, in the form of full sentences.
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Amelia Peabody / int_2429030d	type	Cutlass Between the Teeth
Amelia Peabody / int_2429030d	comment	Cutlass Between the Teeth: Discussed in Children of the Storm when the group is planning their attack on the Isis, and Ramses wonders if they should do this when they arrive. Amelia's reply: Despite her skepticism, Amelia later expresses regret that she couldn't have a cutlass between her teeth when she boarded the Isis. As she puts it, "Ah, well, one cannot have everything."
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Amelia Peabody / int_27a047a6	type	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born
Amelia Peabody / int_27a047a6	comment	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Ramses and Nefret eventually have a son and daughter between the events of The Golden One, when the pregnancy is announced, and Children of the Storm, set a few years later.
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Amelia Peabody / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
Amelia Peabody / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: Evelyn was raised by her grandfather, as she explains in book 1, her parents having died when she was a baby.
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Amelia Peabody / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Amelia Peabody / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Amelia spends the entirety of Lion in the Valley completely oblivious to the fact that the 'master criminal' she is tracking down is in love with her. Her husband Emerson, however, is not so clueless, growing incredibly jealous and paranoid as a result, and getting increasingly annoyed at both the criminal and his oblivious wife. Hilarity Ensues.
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Amelia Peabody / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Amelia Peabody / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: And husband. Sethos isn't very good at this kind of thing. Actually he's very good at the 'disappeared' part...
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Amelia Peabody / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
Amelia Peabody / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: Amelia finds watching her husband Emerson fight the 'Master Criminal' Sethos for her to be quite an 'interesting and stimulating sensation'.
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Amelia Peabody / int_2bc77899	type	I Am Not Pretty
Amelia Peabody / int_2bc77899	comment	I Am Not Pretty: Amelia rubbishes anyone trying to praise her appearance, constantly emphasising that her height, frame, facial features, complexion and jet black hair clash with late Victorian fashions; she concludes that she is not in any way attractive. Several gentleman and definitely Emerson plus Sethos would beg to disagree.
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Amelia Peabody / int_2bcd8194	type	Loyal Animal Companion
Amelia Peabody / int_2bcd8194	comment	Loyal Animal Companion: The Cat Bastet note Yes, she is always addressed or referred to this way , for Ramses. She's also pretty intelligent for a cat. To the extent that early in Seeing a Large Cat, on learning she had died about a month before, Ramses admits that he had a dream of her the night she died (he was away at the time), which is implied to be her personal farewell to him after death. But then, she is an Egyptian cat. Her grandson Horus (introduced in The Ape Who Guards the Balance) becomes this to Nefret, and later Sennia as well.
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Amelia Peabody / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Amelia Peabody / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Amelia and Evelyn fall under this trope in Crocodile on the Sandbank. Less so by the time Evelyn reappears as a major character in later books, when it's obvious they did learn from each other — for instance, Amelia, who was utterly uninterested in all but the most utilitarian clothes at the beginning now can talk fashion with the best of them, and Evelyn is thrilled about wearing bloomers and bicycle dresses.
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Amelia Peabody / int_2d7f0748	type	Raised by Natives
Amelia Peabody / int_2d7f0748	comment	Raised by Natives: Nefret Forth fits this trope morally if not factually. Her parents were 19th-century explorers who discovered a remnant of ancient Egyptian civilization in a lost oasis and spent the rest of their lives there, Going Native in varying degrees. When Amelia and her family arrive, they find the 13-year-old Nefret being high priestess of Isis. Her parents being dead by the end of the book, Nefret goes back to Western civilization with the Emersons, where she has a realistically rough time fitting in.
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Amelia Peabody / int_3004e9c3	type	Convenient Eclipse
Amelia Peabody / int_3004e9c3	comment	Convenient Eclipse: Subverted in The Last Camel Died At Noon, an Affectionate Parody of King Solomon's Mines. The Emersons are in a lost civilization and looking to impress the natives. Amelia asks Emerson if a Convenient Eclipse is coming up by any chance, and his response is essentially, "How the Hell would I know? I'm an archaeologist, not an astronomer."
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Amelia Peabody / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
Amelia Peabody / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: Amelia's husband Emerson is widely known in Egypt by the nickname "Abu Shitaim" or "Father of Curses" for his flowing, creative Arabic invective. The nickname is a compliment, as his Egyptian workmen consider proper cursing to be an art form. He seems less fluent when swearing in English, but since Amelia Bowdlerizes her own journals, we can't be sure.
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Amelia Peabody / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Amelia Peabody / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: In The Deeds of the Disturber, Emerson examines a threatening note and proclaims (in a very Sherlock Holmes-esque way) that he can tell from the handwriting it was written 'by a man of education with a pen that needed mending'. Amelia understandably writes this off as complete nonsense. Enter their son Ramses... who then proceeds to make exactly the same comment, much to Amelia's annoyance.
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Amelia Peabody / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Amelia Peabody / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Amelia. Every book, sometimes for more than one couple. Methods range from moderately subtle such as Carefully arranged dinner seating or dropping back in a walking party to distract the third wheel, to practically whacking Walter upside the head when he Can't Spit It Out. In Crocodile on The Sandbank she encourages Evelyn to express her feelings to Walter, despite Evelyn's fears that her Defiled Forever status would lead to a painful rejection. Turns out that Amelia read Walter correctly. Hilariously misaimed in Curse of The Pharaohs: Mary has been very assiduously nursing Arthur, who is recovering from a serious head injury. As the denouement unfolds, Amelia drags the conversation outside of his room, leaving Mary behind. Some time later, Mary joins the party, and we get this exchange: Cue Karl stepping over to Mary and putting his arm around her. Mary snuggles in. Of course... Amelia being Amelia, within two pages and two and a half months, she's going on about how she knew that Mary & Arthur would not have been a good match.
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Amelia Peabody / int_31e2ad94	type	Kid Detective
Amelia Peabody / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective: Walter "Ramses" Emerson was an example (a master of disguise among other things) until, over the course of the series, he grew up. Since his marriage, he's produced his own frighteningly precocious children, who are following in his footsteps. His mother feels it serves him right. Note that in the following passage, rescuing his parents, Ramses is about eight or nine:
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Amelia Peabody / int_32987ad9	type	Family Eye Resemblance
Amelia Peabody / int_32987ad9	comment	Family Eye Resemblance: This is what allows Sennia (the three-year-old illegitimate daughter of Percival "Percy" Peabody) to be passed off as Ramses' child when she's introduced in The Falcon at the Portal.
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Amelia Peabody / int_33d2e914	type	Be Careful What You Say
Amelia Peabody / int_33d2e914	comment	Be Careful What You Say: Evelyn states that she has so many children (six)... then she loses two, one to what is apparently SIDS, and one fighting in France in World War I.
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Amelia Peabody / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Amelia Peabody / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Amelia and her whole family are fond of cats, and "the Cat Bastet" (always referred to in full) is a character in several of the novels, as are her descendants Horus, Seshat, and the Great Cat of Re.
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Amelia Peabody / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Amelia Peabody / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: In Crocodile on the Sandbank, Emerson, realizing that he might very well die that night, gives Amelia a long, passionate kiss — even at the risk of living to face the consequences, which turn out to be a long and happy marriage.
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Amelia Peabody / int_364f54d3	type	Posthumous Collaboration
Amelia Peabody / int_364f54d3	comment	Posthumous Collaboration: The Painted Queen was started by Barbara Mertz (AKA Elizabeth Peters) and finished by her friend and collaborator Joan Hess.
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Amelia Peabody / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
Amelia Peabody / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: Amelia, being a British archeologist in turn-of-the-century Egypt, quite frequently discusses the plot with other characters while passing out "the genial beverage," as she often call tea (though sometimes, after tense moments, "the genial beverage" is whiskey and soda).
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Amelia Peabody / int_38b33e8d	comment	Love Epiphany: When Nefret finally realizes how she feels about Ramses, the sound she makes is described as half squeak, half sob.
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Amelia Peabody / int_3fa4ef91	type	Baby's First Words
Amelia Peabody / int_3fa4ef91	comment	Baby's First Words: In Children of the Storm, Ramses and Nefret's twins Charlotte and David John's first words (in proper English, at least) are actually sentences. Charlotte asks "Is de lady dead?" revealing how Justine had been scaring her, and David John asks to be called by his full name and asks his mother what subject she would like to discuss. Having dealt with Ramses' lisp and verbosity, Amelia sits down and asks for a drink.
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Amelia Peabody / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Amelia Peabody / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Amelia got this from pretty much all her brothers, but especially her oldest brother James:
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Amelia Peabody / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Amelia Peabody / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Late in the book, Amelia finds out that the Master Criminal, aka Sethos, has one of these on her; he's even sent her flowers.
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Amelia Peabody / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
Amelia Peabody / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: Most of the main cast take a turn at this, but Ramses is especially prone to it.
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Amelia Peabody / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Amelia Peabody / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Justin(e) and her henchmen have been holding Maryam's son (and Sethos' grandson) hostage to force her to work with them.
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Amelia Peabody / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Amelia Peabody / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Nefret, Sennia and David Todros all become the wards of the Emerson brothers and their wives (the former two for Amelia and Emerson, the latter for Evelyn and Walter), and are very happy to become part of the family (Sennia is technically already part of the family, but was abandoned by her father Percy and is only brought to her great-aunt's attention by an unscrupulous pimp/con artist).
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Amelia Peabody / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Amelia Peabody / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Unsurprisingly, considering the setting, some form of this is always used by someone, protagonists included.
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Amelia Peabody / int_4bb6d104	type	Shipping Torpedo
Amelia Peabody / int_4bb6d104	comment	Shipping Torpedo: Crocodile on the Sandbank plays with this with Emerson's attitude toward the developing relationship between his brother Walter and the penniless Evelyn. He's constantly snarking at something or other that they are saying or doing, and Amelia spends most of the book thinking that the reason that he keeps dropping rude or disparaging comments into her conversations with Evelyn and Walter because he disapproves of a match. Ultimately subverted, as his disparaging comments, often crossing the line into rude, are calculated to goad his shy little brother into making a decisive stand for Evelyn.
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Amelia Peabody / int_4c1ecc68	type	Man-Made House Flood
Amelia Peabody / int_4c1ecc68	comment	Man-Made House Flood: In The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia gets home from a trip to London to learn that her son Ramses had been about to take a bath when he'd been distracted by his cat catching a mouse, and had neglected to turn off the water, causing both a flood in the bathroom, and a cascade of water coming down from the ceiling into his father's study. Amelia promptly decides that she doesn't want to know any more details, and tells her maid to just give Amelia her whiskey and go away.
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Amelia Peabody / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Amelia Peabody / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Not usually, but The Falcon at the Portal did not end on a happy note. Nefret had married Geoffrey Godwin after Ramses briefly denied Sennia was his, out of anger over both the accusation and the denial, but in the climax, Geoffrey turns out to be the book's villain and deliberately lets himself fall to his death, leaving Nefret a widow. To top it off, she suffers a miscarriage — revealed in He Shall Thunder in the Sky to have been Ramses's child, conceived the night before Sennia was brought to the family — shortly after, falls into depression, and goes off to another country on a doctor's advice.
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Amelia Peabody / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Amelia Peabody / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Amelia and Emerson. He's 6 feet tall and massively muscular — his neck and shoulders are sometimes likened to those of a bull — with very strong hands.note We know this because Amelia gives us asides on how she finds these qualities... distracting. She's 5 foot nothing, and of a slender build.
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Amelia Peabody / int_507a98ba	type	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming
Amelia Peabody / int_507a98ba	comment	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming: Walter "Ramses" Emerson is named for his paternal uncle, his and Nefret's twins Charlotte are named for Amelia's mother and David Todros and Ramses's cousin John. Walter and Evelyn's daughter Amelia "Lia" is named after Amelia, and David and Lia's son Abudullah "Dolly" is named for David's grandfather.
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Amelia Peabody / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Amelia Peabody / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: Used in Curse of the Pharaohs, when Emerson is accused of raising his voice, and proceeds to deny doing so... by yelling it at the top of his lungs.
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Amelia Peabody / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Amelia Peabody / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Sethos lives and breathes this trope. He may be a criminal (at least, until he pulls a Heel–Face Turn), but he has his own code of conduct and avoids harming innocents.
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Amelia Peabody / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Amelia Peabody / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Peabody-Emerson family consists of Badass Archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson; his Action Mom wife, Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom a parasol is a deadly weapon; their son Ramses who reduces even them to quivering terror; foster-child and later daughter-in-law Nefret, who wields a mean knife; and Uncle Sethos, the former Master Criminal! Throw in ferocious Arab in-laws, a Battle Butler and household staff to match and you have a crew feared by enemies of knowledge and justice everywhere.
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Amelia Peabody / int_56dd38a0	type	Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone
Amelia Peabody / int_56dd38a0	comment	Hilariously misaimed in Curse of The Pharaohs: Mary has been very assiduously nursing Arthur, who is recovering from a serious head injury. As the denouement unfolds, Amelia drags the conversation outside of his room, leaving Mary behind. Some time later, Mary joins the party, and we get this exchange:
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Amelia Peabody / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Amelia Peabody / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Nefret's cat, Horus (introduced in The Ape That Guards the Balance), is a demon incarnate to everyone but Nefret and Sennia.
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Amelia Peabody / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Amelia Peabody / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Several — David and Lia, Cyrus and Catherine, Walter and Evelyn, Sethos and Margaret, Daoud and Kadija.
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Amelia Peabody / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Amelia Peabody / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Amelia Peabody and her husband, who are detective archeologists, routinely ignore the police in their detective work due to believing in this trope and using it as an excuse to pursue their investigations as they see fit. Justified, in that their adventures happen in Egypt in the 1880s to 1920s, where the police are indeed ineffectual (due to a lack of training), violent, corrupt or afraid to press matters when a European is suspected of being the criminal. Less so when in England, where there are competent investigators; the friction that this attitude causes makes applying Amelia and Emerson's real expertise in Egyptian culture to incidents involving London's Cairene population... more difficult than it needs to be. Things get better by the end of the series, but by then, their habits are ingrained, to the chagrin of the new police inspector.
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Amelia Peabody / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
Amelia Peabody / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: The whole core family. They all hate cruelty toward animals and despise wasteful "sport" hunting. One of Amelia's Berserk Buttons is blatant animal abuse, and she insists on inspecting and doctoring all animals acquired for their digs before they are put to work. One of Abdullah's Catch Phrases in the early years is a resigned, 'Yes, Sitt Hakim, the donkeys have been washed'. At one point in Lord of the Silent, Ramses reminisces one one of his fondest childhood memories: Amelia calmly scrubbing a camel with a long-handled brush while it kicked and bellowed so violently that it took two of the expedition crew to hold it in place. The Curse of the Pharaohs mentions an incident between Emerson and one of their neighbors in England: Amelia notes that she understands 'escorting the fox off the field when it's about to be trapped', but that 'pulling Sir Harold out of his saddle and thrashing him with his own riding crop' was a bit superfluous.
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Amelia Peabody / int_5a65ba8c	type	Flirting Under Fire
Amelia Peabody / int_5a65ba8c	comment	Flirting Under Fire: In Crocodile on the Sandbank, Emerson kisses Amelia right before the final battle, "even at the risk of surviving to face the consequences."
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Amelia Peabody / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Amelia Peabody / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: From the third book until sometime late in the series, Amelia Peabody-Emerson and the Master Criminal a.k.a Sethos, are enemies, mainly because the Emerson family are Egyptologists and the Master Criminal is, well, Exactly What It Says on the Tin mainly dealing in forging antiquities. Though they're bitter enemies, they have mutual respect for one another, to the point where Sethos often rescues Amelia or any member of the family from danger from any of the book's main antagonists. It isn't until the book He Shall Thunder in the Sky that it is discovered by Amelia's son Ramses, who was working as a spy for British Intelligence in World War I, that Sethos is actually his uncle — the illegitimate half-brother of Amelia's husband and Ramses' father Radcliffe Emerson, and they effectively ditch the "Enemies" part as a result.
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Amelia Peabody / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Amelia Peabody / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: During the climax, while the Emersons are working in a pyramid, Geoffrey Godwin attacks Amelia and is knocked off-balance by Ramses, acting to protect his mother, falling into a pit. Though Ramses grabs onto Geoffrey in an attempt to save him, the other man claws Ramses' hands, breaks loose and falls to his death.
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Amelia Peabody / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
Amelia Peabody / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Hurt her husband or her son and Amelia Peabody becomes something far more elemental than an English lady. Watch out for the parasol.
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Amelia Peabody / int_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
Amelia Peabody / int_607a8bd2	comment	The Curse of the Pharaohs mentions an incident between Emerson and one of their neighbors in England: Amelia notes that she understands 'escorting the fox off the field when it's about to be trapped', but that 'pulling Sir Harold out of his saddle and thrashing him with his own riding crop' was a bit superfluous.
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Amelia Peabody / int_613ecc2d	type	Riding into the Sunset
Amelia Peabody / int_613ecc2d	comment	Riding into the Sunset: Invoked and lampshaded in The Mummy Case. When M. de Morgan returns Ramses to his parents after a minor escapade, he deliberately rides off toward the sunset, despite having dinner plans in the opposite direction. The Emersons dryly agree:
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Amelia Peabody / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Amelia Peabody / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Sethos.
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Amelia Peabody / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Amelia Peabody / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: In Lion in the Valley, one of Sethos's men is captured by Amelia, and takes poison (prussic acid) rather than be questioned.
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Amelia Peabody / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Amelia Peabody / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Emerson is rather short-tempered,
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Amelia Peabody / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Amelia Peabody / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Sethos, again, when he once more takes a bullet for Amelia in the climax — this time from her nephew Percy.
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Amelia Peabody / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Amelia Peabody / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Amelia's companion Evelyn and Emerson's brother Walter in Crocodile on the Sandbank. Amelia eventually gets so fed-up with both of them that she spits it out for Evelyn:
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Amelia Peabody / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
Amelia Peabody / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Walter and Evelyn vehemently and Amelia more mildly objects to David's relationship with Lia. Everyone comes around eventually.
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Amelia Peabody / int_665d24fb	type	Did You Die?
Amelia Peabody / int_665d24fb	comment	Did You Die?: The Last Camel Died at Noon starts with Amelia, her husband Emerson, and their son Ramses lost in the Nubian desert, several days away from the Nile, after the death of their last camel. There is then an extended flashback to show how they came to be in this situation, which Amelia assures the reader is not for the purposes of causing any suspense about her survival because "Obviously I could not be writing this if I were in the same state as those poor camels."
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Amelia Peabody / int_686424b6	type	Go to Your Room!
Amelia Peabody / int_686424b6	comment	Go to Your Room!: Ramses is often told this, with explicit instructions to stay there, because he will leave otherwise.
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Amelia Peabody / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Amelia Peabody / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: With Peters' Vicky Bliss series. A fairly early book establishes Amelia as an historical figure, and it turns out that one of the main characters in that series is descended from one of Ramses and Nefret's daughters.
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Amelia Peabody / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
Amelia Peabody / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The novels are framed as being excerpts from the rather extensive and detailed journals Amelia Peabody Emerson kept over many decades, starting approximately with her initial trip to Egypt in the 1880s, during which she met the man who would become her husband. Later volumes also include excerpts from "Manuscript H", written by Amelia's son Ramses. Elizabeth Peters takes on the role of the editor of these journals in the author's notes, which allows some extensive Lampshade Hanging: she often expresses exasperation at the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the text, such as the signs that the journals were rewritten many years later with an eye towards publication ("Little Did I Know..."), and Amelia's tendency to put her own opinions in the mouths of her famous contemporaries.
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Amelia Peabody / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Amelia Peabody / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Everyone at one time or another.
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Amelia Peabody / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Amelia Peabody / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Attempted in The Golden One. While Ramses is in the hands of Ismail Pasha and Sahin Pasha, Sahin attempts to lure Ramses to his side, suggesting that if Ramses betrayed his country and joined them, he could convert to Islam and be given Sahin's daughter Esin for a second bride. Ramses, of course, declines.
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Amelia Peabody / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Amelia Peabody / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Mary and Karl von Borg debut in book 2, and go multiple books without ever appearing. Percy Emerson debuts in book 4 and is then absent for seven books in a row, by chronological order. The Frasers debut in book 4, reappear in book 9, and have little role otherwise.
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Amelia Peabody / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Amelia Peabody / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Slightly unconventional and Downplayed a bit. Emerson and Amelia make out in the back of a (horse-drawn) cab on the way home from a stressful day. Amelia notes that something about cabs — she's not sure if it's the smell of the leather, the sound of the horses' hoofbeats, or the dark enclosed space — tends to inspire Emerson.
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Amelia Peabody / int_79cd85f0	type	First Gray Hair
Amelia Peabody / int_79cd85f0	comment	First Gray Hair: Amelia started discovering her first gray hair, over and over, around about World War I, as discussed in Children of the Storm. Every time she spots one, she dyes it from a little bottle that she keeps dead secret (or did until her brother-in-law needed to make an emergency disguise in a later book).
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Amelia Peabody / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
Amelia Peabody / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: Played with in Crocodile on the Sandbank. Amelia finds a young woman who has fainted in the streets of Rome and is appalled that none of the men nearby have invoked this trope. Amelia proceeds to confiscate the coat of the nearest man (insulting him in the process) and uses it to cover the woman.
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Amelia Peabody / int_7fc67b2b	type	Disinherited Child
Amelia Peabody / int_7fc67b2b	comment	Disinherited Child: As discussed in Crocodile on the Sandbank, the Earl of Ellesmere disinherited his daughter for marrying an Italian, and later his granddaughter Evelyn when she fell for an Italian as well and ran off with him (not realizing he was a con artist). Later subverted in the latter case, as he changed his mind and hand-wrote a new will officially leaving everything to her.
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Amelia Peabody / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Amelia Peabody / int_813afa05	comment	In Crocodile on The Sandbank she encourages Evelyn to express her feelings to Walter, despite Evelyn's fears that her Defiled Forever status would lead to a painful rejection. Turns out that Amelia read Walter correctly.
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Amelia Peabody / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Amelia Peabody / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Emerson might grumble about the wasted time, but he really gets into the exorcisms that he throws when setting up camp in abandoned buildings, empty tombs, and the like. These locations invariably have reputations for being haunted, and the antics of the criminals that the family contend with don't help. The superstitious local workmen are usually much reassured after he's put on a "magic" show, complete with special effects. He's pretty good at it: the shows are perpetually popular even with his trained cadre, who have had enough experience to suspect human evildoers before Afrits and Djinn.
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Amelia Peabody / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Amelia Peabody / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Violet Peabody is only seen in Deeds of the Disturber. She's mentioned briefly in The Falcon at the Portal, but otherwise never reappears.
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Amelia Peabody / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Amelia Peabody / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: In The Curse of the Pharaohs, Amelia's husband Emerson manages to attract the attentions of Madame Berengeria, a loathsome woman who is convinced that she and Emerson were lovers in Ancient Egypt. Being Emerson, he's as annoyed by the historical inaccuracies in her story of their past lives as he is by the lady herself.
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Amelia Peabody / int_8da65890	type	Commuting on a Bus
Amelia Peabody / int_8da65890	comment	Commuting on a Bus: Karl von Borg, Sethos.
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Amelia Peabody / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Amelia Peabody / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Ramses, to an insufferable degree. Funnily, Ramses comes to recognize this himself as an adult. Can't quite bring himself to apologize to his mother for this, though.
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Amelia Peabody / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Amelia Peabody / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Emerson, which earns him the epithet "Father of Curses". Ramses is less prone to this, but on one occasion, he "breathed out a word even his father seldom used" when rescuing David. Nefret will swear on occasion, but justifiably when she is giving birth to the twins, Ramses tells the "Father of Curses" that, "At your most eloquent you’ve never surpassed it”
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Amelia Peabody / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Amelia Peabody / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Fifteen in-universe years after his last appearance in The Deeds of the Disturber, Percy Peabody reappears in The Falcon at the Portal.
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Amelia Peabody / int_936b8c22	type	Victorian London
Amelia Peabody / int_936b8c22	comment	Victorian London: The series starts in this period and moves through The Gay '90s into World War I. But Amelia and her husband (though notably not her children) retain their Victorian London sensibilities throughout. Most of their adventures actually happen in Egypt, as they are archaeologists.
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Amelia Peabody / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Amelia Peabody / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: The series centers around a family of Egyptologists working in Egypt in the 1880s-1920s. Since they have to make discoveries periodically, the author has them make all the discoveries of Flinders Petrie, a real-life Egyptologist who worked in the same era. In order to avoid the awkwardness of actually meeting him, the author gave the main character's husband an uncontrollable dislike of him.
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Amelia Peabody / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Amelia Peabody / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In a scene in chapter four, Nefret says that Major Hamilton had "behaved rather like an indulgent uncle" to her. It's revealed late in the book that Hamilton was actually a disguised Sethos, and that Sethos is Emerson's illegitimate half-brother.
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Amelia Peabody / int_9df1477	type	The Exotic Detective
Amelia Peabody / int_9df1477	comment	The Exotic Detective: Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, Egyptologists who detect because their path is littered with the bodies of murdered tomb robbers, spies, etc.
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Amelia Peabody / int_9ebca7d9	type	Mr. Smith
Amelia Peabody / int_9ebca7d9	comment	Mr. Smith: A recurring character, introduced in Lord of the Silent, is a British spymaster who often goes by "Smith" — partly because spies use pseudonyms and partly because it's so much easier than coping with his real name of "the Honorable Algernon Bracegirdle-Boisdragon".
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Amelia Peabody / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
Amelia Peabody / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Happens to Ramses, particularly in Lion in the Valley.
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Amelia Peabody / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Amelia Peabody / int_9fda81a7	comment	In The Deeds of the Disturber, Amelia gives The Summation to their assembled friends, explaining why one person and one person only could be the mastermind behind the murders. When she and Emerson are in bed together later, however, they both confess that they had both suspected the wrong person right up until The Reveal.
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Amelia Peabody / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Amelia Peabody / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Emerson for all his large physique, short temper and boisterousness, would never harm — or allow any harm to come to — a child, his or anyone else's.
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Amelia Peabody / int_a3f6d92c	type	Action Dad
Amelia Peabody / int_a3f6d92c	comment	Action Dad: Dr. Radcliffe Emerson, Amelia's Egyptologist-detective husband, is always short-tempered and becomes absolutely volcanic at any threat to his family. Since he is regularly described by his narrator-wife as "Herculean" in build, the results are impressive. For that matter, his son Ramses inherits this trait.
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Amelia Peabody / int_a3f6fcb0	type	Action Mom
Amelia Peabody / int_a3f6fcb0	comment	Action Mom: Amelia Peabody Emerson is an Action Mom who carries a steel tipped parasol, a gun and a knife — and still is unequal to her son Ramses. Ramses' wife, Nefret Emerson, seems to be carrying on her mother-in-law's legacy quite well, being the mother of twins and still keeping up with her husband in the dangerous games of disguise and espionage that he plays with his bloodbrother, David Todros.
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Amelia Peabody / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Amelia Peabody / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Amelia's son Ramses. No, a Victorian Age English couple did not name their son after an Egyptian Pharaoh, but you could be forgiven for thinking they did, given how rarely his real name (Walter) is mentioned in the books. Sethos too — his real name of Seth isn't even revealed until Children of the Storm, fifteenth in publishing order and eighteenth in in-universe chronological order.
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Amelia Peabody / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
Amelia Peabody / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Love at First Shout, at least: Amelia and Emerson first meet in a museum where he lambastes her for daring to dust some of the artifacts. She gives as good as she gets. She spends the rest of the afternoon grousing about how rude and unpleasant he is, but then she meets an aristocratic young man and can't help comparing their manner, physique, hands... the young dandy comes off much the worse in the comparison. It's unclear exactly when Sethos develops his crush on Amelia, but it's quite probable that it dates from when one of his henchmen knocks Ramses into a wall, leading Amelia to think he's been killed. She goes utterly berserk, beats up the henchmen, and stabs Sethos with her parasol, sending him fleeing into the night screaming in pain and fear. The next we hear from him, he's sending her utterly miscalculated love gifts.
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Amelia Peabody / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: At one point, Ramses says outright that he had this for Nefret, regardless of the fact he was a child at the time.
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Amelia Peabody / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Amelia Peabody / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: This turns out to be the goal of the villain, Justin(e), in Children of the Storm — she's out to avenge the death of her mother Bertha, Sethos' old associate, and unwittingly (as she doesn't mention him) that of her father Leopold Vincey, who was the villain of The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog.
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Amelia Peabody / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Amelia Peabody / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: A cab driver calls Ramses "Brother of Curses" in the first chapter of He Shall Thunder in the Sky.
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Amelia Peabody / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Amelia Peabody / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Amelia tends to have premonitions, including a notable vision at the end of Seeing a Large Cat. Emerson thinks it's all nonsense though.
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Amelia Peabody / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Amelia Peabody / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Amelia herself has several. She has a love for aphorisms, but these are all her: "We must have a Council of War!" near the climax of most cases. She frequently makes or consults "one of my little lists" of clues. "Another shirt Ruined!" — Both Emerson and Ramses tend to be rather hard on their clothes, if for somewhat different reasons. There used to be a fansite for the series that used this as its name. She often has "the direst of forebodings". The family eventually pick this one up, at least when they are expressing their misgivings to Amelia. "I had, of course, considered that / thought of that / anticipated that"However, while one does not like to doubt the word of a lady, her use of these phrases often feels like an attempt to save face or that she's retconing events in her head. "I suspected him from the start!" — Ramses once remarked that this is meaningless because she always suspects everyone. Abdullah in later books often laments: "Every year, another dead body." He's got a point. Emerson eventually settles into a frustrated "Another cursed pair of young lovers" whenever he detects signs that Amelia's Shipper on Deck tendencies are going to distract from the Important archaeological work they have in front of them.
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Amelia Peabody / int_b0cac376	type	The Usurper
Amelia Peabody / int_b0cac376	comment	The Usurper: When the Emersons arrive at the Lost Oasis, they find King Tarek is in exile, with his position usurped by a man named Zekare. In the climax, Zekare's son Marasen betrays and murders him in an attempt to usurp the throne for himself, but he's defeated and killed, and Tarek reclaims his throne.
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Amelia Peabody / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Amelia Peabody / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: During her son's childhood, Amelia is always forbidding Ramses from speaking of something or carrying out some action or another, and then adding extra details to her prohibitions while mentally noting that he's already thinking of ways to get around it and that she needs to be careful to close these loopholes before he can make use of them. In Deeds of the Disturber, Amelia has to forbid him from leaving his room unless there is genuine danger that will result if he stays in it. He subsequently leaves to alert his mother that said room is on fire.
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Amelia Peabody / int_b2176eb6	type	Now or Never Kiss
Amelia Peabody / int_b2176eb6	comment	Now or Never Kiss: In Crocodile on the Sandbank, Radcliffe Emerson, the dashing Egyptologist whom Amelia thinks merely respects and grudgingly admires her, realizes that either or both of them could be killed within minutes by the villain, and refuses to die without having at least kissed her — passionately and at length, right on the floor of the tomb where they're hiding — even at the risk of living to face the consequences. Said consequences turn out to be a long and happy marriage.
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Amelia Peabody / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Amelia Peabody / int_b2280b66	comment	"I had, of course, considered that / thought of that / anticipated that"However, while one does not like to doubt the word of a lady, her use of these phrases often feels like an attempt to save face or that she's retconing events in her head.
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Amelia Peabody / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Amelia Peabody / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: At one point in The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia pats herself on the back for nagging her husband into a certain course of action. When it goes badly a few pages later, she notes that if he'd listened to her, he would never have taken that course. Apparently, she forgot to edit the relevant portion of her journal.
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Amelia Peabody / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Amelia Peabody / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: In Lion in the Valley, Amelia uses the following line to explain why Bastet wasn't hungry — she'd already been fed by the book's villain:
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Amelia Peabody / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Amelia Peabody / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: The Emersons meet Mrs. Forth, who believes herself to the the God's Wife of Amon and wants nothing to do with her English identity. Tarek explains that she tried to kill Nefret twice before she was born. Amelia suspects postpartum depression. But Emerson speculates that Nefret her loathing of the name Forth and attempts to murder Nefret are the result of her father-in-law raping her, and the reason Willie Forth and his wife ended up on the Lost Oasis where they both rejected their former lives.
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Amelia Peabody / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
Amelia Peabody / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: The long line of Emerson cats all manage this without talking.
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Amelia Peabody / int_bbd8d3f4	type	Adventurer Archaeologist
Amelia Peabody / int_bbd8d3f4	comment	Adventurer Archaeologist: Amelia and her husband Emerson, Victorian Egyptologists who originally bonded over their passion for preserving and learning from the artifacts that they discover. These two go out of their way to subvert several aspects of the trope though: they regard their adventures as interruptions, most of the time, and are always itching to get back to The Dig; and they are stridently clear about Egyptian artifacts belonging to the Egyptians, not, for instance, the British Museum, and make frequent derogatory remarks about the treasure-hunting approach of their predecessors and some of their contemporaries.
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Amelia Peabody / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Amelia Peabody / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Amelia's husband, Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson is described by his wife as "Herculean" and also as "the greatest archeologist of this or any other age." His daughter-in-law can do charity medical work safely in the worst slums partly because she is widely loved, but also because "I will tear out your liver" if a hair of her head is mussed.
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Amelia Peabody / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Amelia Peabody / int_bc74ef27	comment	One of Amelia's Berserk Buttons is blatant animal abuse, and she insists on inspecting and doctoring all animals acquired for their digs before they are put to work. One of Abdullah's Catch Phrases in the early years is a resigned, 'Yes, Sitt Hakim, the donkeys have been washed'. At one point in Lord of the Silent, Ramses reminisces one one of his fondest childhood memories: Amelia calmly scrubbing a camel with a long-handled brush while it kicked and bellowed so violently that it took two of the expedition crew to hold it in place.
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Amelia Peabody / int_be03ba89	type	Lost World
Amelia Peabody / int_be03ba89	comment	Lost World: The book sees the Emersons setting out and discovering a hidden civilization.
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Amelia Peabody / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Amelia Peabody / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Amelia and Emerson. Evelyn and Walter. Eventually David and Lia, and Nefret and Ramses. Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson, archeologist detectives. They quarrel all the time, partly for the fun of it, but also hold each other in something like awe and devote a considerable part of their considerable will-powers to making the marriage work. Their son Walter "Ramses" Emerson apparently learned from his parents' example and has this relationship with his wife Nefret. Emerson's brother Walter, whom Ramses was named after, has a very happy marriage with his wife Evelyn. Despite a rough patch after their sixth and youngest child dies in infancy. David and Lia also become this when they marry.
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Amelia Peabody / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Amelia Peabody / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: The cat Bastet in several of the early novels, even though these are mysteries, not fantasies. She is amazingly, though not quite supernaturally, intelligent and loyal. When she eventually dies at an advanced age in Seeing a Large Cat, other cats show up — sometimes her descendants, sometimes just adopted strays — to continue the tradition, though only her daughter comes close to her calibre. By the way, the stories mostly take place in Egypt and the cat Bastet is always referred to as "the cat Bastet", never just "Bastet", as if even the very unsuperstitious Emersons wanted to be careful that she not be mistaken for any other Bastet.
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Amelia Peabody / int_c05de85d	type	Mindlink Mates
Amelia Peabody / int_c05de85d	comment	Mindlink Mates: Ramses and Nefret Emerson have a one-way link (which is explained to some extent in He Shall Thunder in the Sky), whereby Nefret knows when Ramses is in imminent danger.
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Amelia Peabody / int_c489934e	type	Apron Matron
Amelia Peabody / int_c489934e	comment	Apron Matron: Amelia Peabody Emerson herself. Her parasol is a weapon feared throughout Egypt (even before her husband gave her a sword-cane version in He Shall Thunder in the Sky), and senior British officials cringe at the thought of her tongue-lashings. In a later book, she reveals that she replaced all the steel 'bones' in her corset with custom made knives, including a couple that needed their own sheathes.
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Amelia Peabody / int_c6dd9571	type	Lost Will and Testament
Amelia Peabody / int_c6dd9571	comment	Lost Will and Testament: In Crocodile on the Sandbank, the importance of the MacGuffin turns out to be that it has a lost will hidden inside.
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Amelia Peabody / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Amelia Peabody / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Multiple throughout the series. To Sherlock Holmes — the second book has characters belonging to a different branch of the Baskerville family, a German named Von Bork, and someone under the pseudonym of Milverton, as well as a direct reference to Holmes, while book four has Amelia meet a detective named Tobias Gregson who's not actually either of those things. There are also references to H. Rider Haggard's stories, in addition to the Homage mentioned above involving Nefret's backstory. Elizabeth Peters is a Discworld fan. One of the World War I-era stories had Sethos pretending to be a German agent reporting to a "von Überwald".
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Amelia Peabody / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Amelia Peabody / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In the climax, Justin locks herself in her quarters onboard the Isis and lights the dynamite that she's rigged the boat with, trying to kill the Emersons and their allies at the cost of her own life.
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Amelia Peabody / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Amelia Peabody / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Amelia and Emerson's relationship started with a shouted argument in a museum in Crocodile on the Sandbank. This seems to be their primary way of discussing important issues, though they never escalate to the point of actual blows. After a quarter century of this, Emerson even advises Ramses that regular brisk "discussions" are good for the health of a marital relationship; clearing the air and enhancing the mood for post-argument romance.
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Amelia Peabody / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: Sethos is revealed to be Emerson and Walter's paternal half brother very late in He Shall Thunder in the Sky (conceived by their father and his mistress). The same book introduces Melinda "Molly" Hamilton, who's revealed to be Sethos' illegitimate daughter by his former associate Bertha.
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Amelia Peabody / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Gargery, the Peabody-Emerson's butler, is a mean hand with a blackjack. The footmen are also useful in scrap and even the housemaids have learned not to scream or faint at the sight of blood.
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Amelia Peabody / int_da38c13f	comment	Lamarck Was Right: Ramses inherits his talents at disguise and general sneakiness from his uncle Sethos. Let's face it, Amelia and Emerson would make a good army just by themselves, but sneakiness isn't exactly among their considerable talents. Also, the character in the Vicky Bliss series who turns out to be descended from Ramses? Starts off as a master thief and antiquity smuggler, with a knack for disguise.
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Amelia Peabody / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Amelia and Nefret both start out as this, fighting villains on equal terms with their male partners. Both ultimately graduate to Action Moms.
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Amelia Peabody / int_dae62ef5	comment	Action Hero: Emerson and Ramses. In the later novels, Ramses usually gets beaten up at least once a book.
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Amelia Peabody / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Ramses' love for Nefret is obvious to everyone from Abdullah to Tarek.
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Amelia Peabody / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Evelyn Barton-Forbes elopes with her painting tutor and is disinherited, though later re-instated. Her cousin, Luigi is the son of an Italian father, and his mother was disowned for marrying him.
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Amelia Peabody / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Amelia and her husband have some interesting conversations. As shown in Lion in the Valley, what do you talk about while crawling through the unstable, half-crumbled passages of an un-excavated pyramid, hoping that your 7 year old son is right when he says he knows a way out? The similarities of construction with other 12th Dynasty pyramids, of course!
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Amelia Peabody / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: While Amelia does love Ramses she's very unsentimental about it, much to the frustration of Emerson who wishes she'd be more affectionate towards their only child. Then during the family's first proper encounter with Sethos, one of the Master Criminal's henchmen slams Ramses into a wall and Amelia believes he's dead. The next thing she remembers is Emerson shaking her out of her blind rage, the henchmen cowering on the floor and begging for mercy, a bloodstained parasol from having stabbed Sethos with it, and Ramses pressed flat against the wall in sheer terror. She also takes a bullet meant for him in The Serpent on the Crown
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Amelia Peabody / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Amelia has at least one dream-conversation with her deceased friend Abdullah in each novel since his death. They are cryptic enough that they do not interfere with fair play in the detection, but she believes them to be genuine.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson are the founders of a clan, including their son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, Emerson's brother and his wife (Amelia's best friend), and, through the marriage of a niece with the grandson of their Egyptian foreman, a large chunk of an Egyptian village. Oh, and there's the illegitimate half-brother and his liaisons. In the chronologically last book, their friends the Vandergelt family become linked to them by marriage as well (as David's cousin Jumana agrees to marry Cyrus' step-son Bertie).
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Amelia Peabody / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Amelia Peabody / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Amelia and her husband Radcliffe Emerson fondly refer to each other by their last names, in memory of their rather tumultuous courtship. That Prof. Emerson from the first with less than affection addresses Miss Peabody by her last name alone, as though she were a man, indicates that he respects her as an equal.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Amelia and Emerson are professional Victorian Egyptologists, but they also wind up doing a lot of sleuthing over the course of the series.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Amelia Peabody / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Throughout much of Children of the Storm, the Emersons meet a boy named Justin. In the last few chapters, it's revealed he's actually a woman, the daughter of Leopold Vincey (the villain from The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog) and Bertha (who was a villain in the same book, along with The Hippopotamus Pool and The Ape Who Guards the Balance), and older half-sister of Maryam.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Amelia Peabody / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Amelia and Nefret and to a lesser extent Evelyn. Literally in the case of their parasols.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: As noted in Historical Domain Character, Emerson and Peabody clearly are versions of Real Life Flinders Petrie and his friend and patron Amelia Edwards, embellished up to 11 and married to each other.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e57965c6	type	Covered in Mud
Amelia Peabody / int_e57965c6	comment	Covered in Mud: In The Curse of the Pharaohs, Amelia's son Ramses interrupts a tea party after having gone digging in the compost heap and getting covered in mud (among other things). Ramses is described as not so much leaving muddy footprints as having a stream of filth trailing behind him.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e5a0c74a	comment	Lady of Adventure: Amelia. Nefret and Margret Minton are, too, though not in Amelia's league.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Amelia's husband and son have a tendency to undergo this in practically every book, sometimes more than once, to the point where one of her catchphrases is "Another shirt ruined!"
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Amelia Peabody / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: Amelia's son Walter "Ramses" Emerson is attracted to his adopted sister Nefret pretty much from the moment he meets her, but it takes Nefret a long time to see Ramses as anything other than an Annoying Younger Sibling.
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Amelia Peabody / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Amelia Peabody / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: All of the Emersons, especially Amelia, tend to use these rather than outright lies when dissembling (including to each other).
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Amelia Peabody / int_ecfbba60	type	Fee Fi Faux Pas
Amelia Peabody / int_ecfbba60	comment	Fee Fi Faux Pas: Amelia manages a rather large one very near the beginning of Crocodile on the Sandbank. She claims that what she says upon hearing Evelyn's tearful, angsty, "I was seduced and now you are going to kick me back out on the street" confession is not what she meant to saynote Though in the series' timeframe, this is a rather realistic assessment of the probable outcome of this conversation.:
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Amelia Peabody / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Amelia Peabody / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Walter "Ramses" Emerson tends to embody this trope through his younger years, though he (mostly) grows out of it by around age 20, as stated by Amelia in Guardian of the Horizon. Then, in the very end of Children on the Storm, his son is revealed to be the same way. In fact, David John's first sentences are requesting to be called by his full name and "What subject would you like to discuss?" which prompts Amelia to beg Emerson for a drink. Amelia herself could actually fit this trope in many regards, although it may be more her old-fashioned manner of narration than excessive verbosity.
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Amelia Peabody / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Amelia Peabody / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Cyrus' stepson Bertie is invalided out of service after two years of service in World War I. More than his physical recovery, he badly needs someone sympathetic to listen to his doubts about his war service, and Ramses (who posed as a conscientious objector) plays this role for him:
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Amelia Peabody / int_f54f1401	type	Passed-Over Inheritance
Amelia Peabody / int_f54f1401	comment	Passed-Over Inheritance: Crocodile on the Sandbank reveals that Amelia inherited her father's full estate, since she was the only one who shared his interest in ancient history. Her six older brothers, who were all successful merchants and professional men, were not amused to find out they'd missed out on half a million pounds (having not realized that their father was actually wealthy), and multiple attempts were made to claim the sum for themselves, though Amelia and her father's lawyer stopped all of them. In the same book, this isn't done intentionally by the Earl of Ellesmere (at least, not at first), but effectively when his son died; his title had to go to the closest male heir (his grandson by his eldest and disinherited daughter) by law, preventing his granddaughter Evelyn from getting everything. He later disinherited her entirely when she fell for an Italian, who turned out to be a con artist. At least, for a while. He later changed his mind and wrote a new will, giving her everything, before dying.
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Amelia Peabody / int_f5c92fe0	type	Amnesiac Lover
Amelia Peabody / int_f5c92fe0	comment	Amnesiac Lover: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog features Amelia's husband Emerson losing his memories of meeting, falling in love with, and marrying her early on. Even after he's recovered, he fakes still having amnesia about his relationship with Amelia until the climax.
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Amelia Peabody / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Amelia Peabody / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like in a Coma: In Crocodile on a Sandbank, Amelia comes out of a swoon to feel herself being tenderly held and kissed by her not-yet-husband Emerson with whom she has a Slap-Slap-Kiss relationship going. Not only is she totally fine with it, she shams unconsciousness for a few more minutes to prolong the moment!
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Amelia Peabody / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Amelia Peabody / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: When Sethos reveals his adoration for Amelia, he lists all the things he's done throughout the novel in order to try and win her regard. They are, to a one, silly, convoluted or both.
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Amelia Peabody / int_f7887c47	type	Born Detective
Amelia Peabody / int_f7887c47	comment	Born Detective: Walter "Ramses" Emerson is the son of Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, both archeologists and both Amateur Sleuths. He has been detecting with them since he was six or so, whether they want him to or not. He follows them in both careers, with a side-order of secret agent.
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Amelia Peabody / int_f8117297	type	Go-Go Enslavement
Amelia Peabody / int_f8117297	comment	Go-Go Enslavement: Amelia Peabody Emerson is captured by the Big Bad in Lion in the Valley and required to dress herself in a sexy harem costume. She keeps her long Victorian underwear on though, meaning the effect is not quite as intended. Even so, Emerson's first words to her are "Put some clothes on!"
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Amelia Peabody / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Amelia Peabody / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Amelia Peabody Emerson and her husband Professor Radcliffe Emerson, from The Ape Who Guards the Balance on, when Emerson gets his first motorcar. To be fair, cars were a novelty at the time, and neither ever had any formal driver's training, but Amelia's daughter-in-law tried to give her a lesson — and later made excuses never to ride with her again. As for the Professor, his style of driving is "floor it and hit the horn a lot" (not a quote from the books, but accurate), prompting Amelia to do her best to limit his opportunities to drive it or any other motor vehicle from then on.
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Amelia Peabody / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Lord of the Silent reveals that Sethos had done this a second time at the end of He Shall Thunder in the Sky. Emerson is not pleased when he finds out, and at the end of the book makes the following comment:
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Amelia Peabody / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: Sethos and Ramses both. Ramses, in fact, developed his own skill at disguise while still a young boy, after stealing one of Sethos' rather comprehensive makeup kits; for a while before puberty he was in the habit of disguising himself so convincingly as a girl that the Emersons' servants thought they were being haunted by a child's ghost. In The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog, Sethos spends most the plot hanging out with Amelia, disguised as her and Emerson's good friend Cyrus Vandergelt, and she can't tell the difference.
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Amelia Peabody / int_feaf5424	type	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious
Amelia Peabody / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Amelia and her husband scrap all the time, but she knows he's only really angry at her when he calls her "Amelia" rather than the usual "Peabody".
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Amelia Peabody / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Both used and subverted. Amelia and her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren are all white and regarded with awe, admiration, and dread by the Egyptians they work with, but one of the causes they champion is equal rights for Egyptians, and they cultivate some impressive Egyptian sidekicks (though none in their own league). In The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia and family visit a Lost World, where Amelia is irritated to discover that the heroic native prince believes in the Mighty Whitey trope.
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Amelia Peabody / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: Nefret. When her hair isn't described as "golden", most characters seem to agree it's "red-gold".
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Amelia Peabody / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The Egyptology and history of archeology in the series is solid, because the author, Elizabeth Peters (IRL Barbara Mertz) is an Egyptologist and writes non-fiction under her real name.
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Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Battle Butler / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Been There, Shaped History / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Big Brother Bully / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Born Detective / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Casual Danger Dialog / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Casual Danger Dialogue / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Cock Fight / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Convenient Eclipse / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Covered in Mud / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Cross-Dressing Voices / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Cutlass Between the Teeth / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Dating What Daddy Hates / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Dead Person Conversation / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Did You Die? / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Dude, She's Like in a Coma / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Fee Fi Faux Pas / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	First Gray Hair / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Flirting Under Fire / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Flirty Stepsiblings / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Flowery Insults / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Go-Go Enslavement / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Historical Detective Fiction / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	I Am Not Pretty / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Kid Detective / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Kindhearted Cat Lover / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Knew It All Along / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Lost Will and Testament / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Man-Made House Flood / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Master of Disguise / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Meet Cute / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Mindlink Mates / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Mr. Smith / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Non-Human Sidekick / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Not Blood Siblings / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Now or Never Kiss / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Posthumous Collaboration / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Raised by Natives / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Riding into the Sunset / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Shipping Torpedo / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Stroke the Beard / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	The Clan / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	The Exotic Detective / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	Victorian London / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_eb0eeb16
Amelia Peabody	hasFeature	You Must Be Cold / int_eb0eeb16

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