#26 The Snake, The Crocodile, and The Dog by Elizabeth Peters. This was a really fun book about a real woman's liber, way back, who is helping her husband ( on equal terms) discover tombs in Egypt. The story is a witty mystery with a villain or a group of villains who are trying to get the both of them since they are very eminent explorers. It has romance, precocious kids, an extreme code of ethics and chivalry, and a great main character, Amelia Peabody.

The book refers back to other adventures the characters have had and I plan to read another book in the series. The biggest problem is that they are really long with very small print. ARGG!