 The novels blend mystery and romance with a wryly comic tone, and at times also parody Victorian-era adventure novels such as those written by H. Rider Haggard.The series was published between 1975 and 2010, with the final, posthumous novel (completed by Joan Hess) appearing in 2017.Amelia Peabody is introduced in the series' first novel, "Crocodile on the Sandbank" as a confirmed spinster, suffragist, and scholar, living in England in 1884.