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3 unusual facts about Evelyn Emerson


Evelyn Emerson

Evelyn Emerson is a fictional character from the Amelia Peabody series of historical mystery novels by Elizabeth Peters.

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The first instance of this is in The Hippopotamus Pool when she and Walter are going through marital troubles after their latest child dies in infancy.

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In The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, even Amelia, who is used to women being underestimated, is stunned to read a letter account of Evelyn subduing a burglar in her home with a heavy parasol of the kind Amelia herself carries, and to hear Evelyn proposing a possible solution to the mystery that Amelia herself overlooked.



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