 The earlier books in the series—prior to "Seeing a Large Cat"—were written entirely as first-person narrative, with the novels purporting to be edited versions of journals kept by Amelia herself.According to the series mythology, the initial cache of journals that provided the narrative for the Amelia Peabody series were discovered in the attic of the ancestral home of the Tregarth family in Cornwall, England, into which Amelia's unnamed granddaughter eventually married (this is revealed in the Vicky Bliss series final installment "The Laughter of Dead Kings" in which it is strongly implied that Peters herself -- "She writes under three names"—is the journals' editor).Beginning with "Seeing a Large Cat", Amelia's narrative is interspersed with excerpts from "Manuscript H," a third person narrative that follows the adventures of the younger generation of the family, the author of which is eventually revealed to be Walter 'Ramses' Emerson.