A review by ergative
Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters

4.0

I rather liked this one! The Manuscript H gimmick was a little bit too gimmicky, but it's nice to see the children forming their own little gang of crime-investigators. However, it does rather irritate me that, for alll the lip service given to women's equality, Neferet is perpetually forbidden from doing things that Ramses is allowed to do. It's just kind of a knee-jerk reaction: of COURSE Ramses goes into a tomb first, while Neferet must hang back. OF COURSE Ramses gets to chase after a young lady running alone into a shady park after dark while Neferet is bodily held back by Emerson. Some of the cases seem to be explicitly commented upon as double standards, but there are others -- like who gets to go first into the tomb -- that are accepted without question as appropriate. Neferet is two years older than Ramses! It's rather irritating.