Seeing a Large Cat is the ninth novel in the Amelia Peabody historical mystery series by Elizabeth Peters, first published in 1997.

Daughter Nefret, same age as David, spent her summer studying anatomy with Louisa Aldrich-Blake at the London School of Medicine for Women.

Dolly, daughter of Colonel Bellingham, a veteran of the American Civil War, a Southern rebel, insists she needs protection from a stalker, selecting Ramses for a role he does not want.

Donald and Enid Fraser (first met in Lion in the Valley) are in Cairo, accompanied by Mrs Jones, a woman who runs fashionable seances communicating with an ancient Egyptian princess.

Ramses and David get hurt in some fights with a tourist named Booghis Tucker Tollington, who they guess is the one-time secretary to Bellingham and lover of the dead woman, keeping secrets from Emerson and Amelia.

Key observation by Nefret and Amelia was all the petticoats she wore, carrying away all her clothing, meaning she planned her escape.

She awakens with a hurt leg to find Ramses followed them, and has just banged Bellingham's head on the ground to subdue him, instead killing him.

On Amelia's advice, Mrs Jones takes orphaned Dolly to Cairo, to hand her over to the American consulate, to escort her home.

The device used is Manuscript H, his notes found in the family papers, describing his views and the actions of him, David and Nefret when away from the parents.

"[3] Kirkus Reviews described the "triumphal procession" of novels establishing the "mythos" of main character Amelia Peabody and her "uxorious" husband and Egyptologist Emerson.

The writing style is less than the best, yet "Peters compensates for ordinary prose and fussy plotting with humor and nicely calibrated domestic psychology.

It is true that Victorian heroine "Amelia's unquenchable joie de l'aventure" dominates the novels written in an exuberant style, yet there is more.

"There are always grand views of Egyptian antiquities in her stories, as well as acidic caricatures of globe-trotting tourists and the endlessly entertaining spectacle of busy professional parents confounded by their own progeny."

This novel "finds the mummified remains of a rich American's runaway wife – a mere taste of the melodramatic amusements that await in Luxor.