Amelia Peabody/Trivia
Trivia about Amelia Peabody includes:
- Shout-Out: To Sherlock Holmes -- the second book has characters belonging to a different branch of the Baskerville family, 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 [1]. One of the World War I-era stories had Sethos pretending to be a German agent reporting to a "von Überwald."
- Shown Their Work: The Egyptology and history of archeology is solid, because Elizabeth Peters (IRL Barbara Mertz) is an Egyptologist and writes non-fiction under her real name.
- Back to Amelia Peabody
- ↑ She's reviewed -- and praised -- Discworld books under two names; as Peters and as another of her pen names, Barbara Michaels. Some of the books cite both reviews.