I would certainly recommend reading the Amelia Peabody series in order. Below is a list of her books in publication date order, by series. An old enemy was determined to learn Amelia and Emerson's most closely guarded secret: the location of a legendary long-lost oasis and a race of people bedecked in gold.I first discovered the novels of Elizabeth Peters when I was a Bookseller, enjoying the concept of a slightly damaged book for free! This was the first novel in the Amelia Peabody series and it really made me chuckle, so I read a few more. The snake, the crocodile, and the dog by Elizabeth Peters. must rescue her kidnapped husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage in this delightful seventh adventure for beloved heroine Amelia Peabody. But their return would threaten not only their marriage, but their very lives with perils as chilling as a mummy'scurse. The snake, the crocodile, and the dog Bookreader Item Preview. She and her dear Emerson were returning to the remote desert site where they had first fallen in love, Amarna, the holy city of Akhenaton and his beautiful queen, Nefertiti. The expedition began so happily.Leaving their delightful, but catastrophically precocious, son, Ramses, back in England, Amelia hoped this romantic trip might rejuvenate her thirteen-year-old marriage and bring back the thrills that she feared were fading. Little did she realize, as she and her beloved husband sailed blissfully toward the pyramids of ancient Egypt, that those very beasts (and a cat as well) would be part of a deadly plot. Amelia Peabody was unabashedly proud of her newest translation, a fragment of the ancient fairytale "The Doomed Prince." Later, she would wonder why no sense of foreboding struck her as she retold the story of the king's favorite son who had been warned that he would die from the snake, the crocodile, or the dog. Now, in the seventh mystery in the series, the Emerson-Peabodys are traveling up the Nile once again to encounter their most deadly adversary, the Master Criminal, who is back at his sinister best.
As Peter Theroux in the New York Times Book Review points out, "Her wonderfully witty voice and her penchant for history lessons of the Nile both ancient and modern keep high adventure moving for even the highest brows." In her previous outing, The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia Peabody and her dashing husband, Emerson, discovered a fabulous lost oasis in the Nubian desert. Alternate cover for ISBN 13: 9780446364782 A brand-new Elizabeth Peters novel is one of t. As Peter Theroux in the New York Times Book Review points out, 'Her wonderfully witty voice and her penchant for history lessons of the Nile both ancient and modern keep (her) high adventure moving for even the highest brows'. Alternate cover for ISBN 13: 9780446364782Ī brand-new Elizabeth Peters novel is one of the uncompromising pleasures in life. A brand-new Elizabeth Peters novel is one of the uncompromising pleasures in life.
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