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Howard Carter

1874–1939

Howard Carter was a British archaeologist best known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Working with the financial support of Lord Carnarvon, he excavated in the Valley of the Kings and opened the largely intact royal tomb in 1922 after years of searching.

Howard Carter was born in Brompton and died in London. After years of archaeological work in Egypt, Carter began excavating for Lord Carnarvon in the Valley of the Kings and discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922; the largely intact burial transformed both Egyptology and popular interest in ancient Egypt.

In Elizabeth Peters’ Tomb of the Golden Bird, in 1922, Emerson remains convinced that Tutankhamun’s tomb lies in the Valley of the Kings, but the excavation rights belong to Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. In Christian Jacq’s The Tutankhamun Affair, The novel follows the early twentieth-century search for Tutankhamun’s tomb, focusing on Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon as they pursue the hidden burial of a little-known pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings. M. J. Trow’s Lestrade and the Kiss of Horus draws Howard Carter into its Egyptian mystery through his discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, surrounding the archaeologist with the deaths and rumours that later fed the popular idea of a pharaoh’s curse.

Periods

Periods linked to Howard Carter

Egyptology and the Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb1922–1923

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Howard Carter (2 series)

Amelia Peabody in Order

by Elizabeth Peters 20 books 4.4(45,607)

The Amelia Peabody mysteries follow an independent Victorian traveller who becomes an Egyptologist, detective and member of a formidable archaeological family. Beginning in 1884 and continuing through the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the novels combine excavation, antiquities crime, murder and imperial politics with the changing relationships…

All books in this series

1. Crocodile on the Sandbank

First published 1975 · 4.2(7,043)

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2. The Curse of the Pharaohs

First published 1981 · 4.3(4,006)

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3. The Mummy Case

First published 1985 · 4.3(2,609)

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4. Lion in the Valley

First published 1986 · 4.4(2,212)

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5. The Deeds of the Disturber

First published 1988 · 4.4(3,150)

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6. The Last Camel Died at Noon

First published 1991 · 4.5(2,210)

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7. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

First published 1992 · 4.5(2,049)

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8. The Hippopotamus Pool

First published 1996 · 4.6(1,884)

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9. Seeing a Large Cat

First published 1997 · 4.6(1,750)

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10. The Ape Who Guards the Balance

First published 1998 · 4.6(1,370)

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11. Guardian of the Horizon

First published 2004 · 4.5(1,262)

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12. A River in the Sky

First published 2010 · 4.4(1,699)

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13. The Falcon at the Portal

First published 1999 · 4.6(1,607)

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14. The Painted Queen

First published 2017 · 3.9(2,946)

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15. He Shall Thunder in the Sky

First published 2000 · 4.6(2,156)

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16. Lord of the Silent

First published 2001 · 4.5(1,691)

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17. The Golden One

First published 2002 · 4.6(1,314)

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18. Children of the Storm

First published 2003 · 4.6(1,574)

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19. The Serpent on the Crown

First published 2005 · 4.5(1,472)

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20. Tomb of the Golden Bird

First published 2006 · 4.5(1,603)

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Inspector Lestrade in Order

18 books 3.9(2,721)

The Inspector Lestrade novels take the Scotland Yard detective familiar from the Sherlock Holmes stories and give him an independent career of his own. Trow’s Sholto Lestrade is persistent, practical and frequently exasperated by the eccentric world around him, investigating murders that carry him through circuses, the Underground,…