Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson are a Happily Married Battle Couple who are Victorian Egyptologists. Each is an Adventurer Archaeologist (subverted; they have plenty of adventures, but nothing but scorn for treasure-hunting-style archeology) and an Amateur Sleuth. They also exhibit the tropes Huge Guy, Tiny Girl, Slap Slap Kiss (they are sparring partners as well as passionate lovers), Mama Bear and Papa Wolf, Casual Danger Dialog, Parasol of Pain, and Literary Agent Hypothesis (the whole series is supposedly being extracted by an editor from Amelia's private journal and a "Manuscript H" giving a third-person account of the experiences of Ramses and occasionally Nefret; see below).