Crocodile on the Sandbank - Hardcover

Peters, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0922890366 ISBN 13: 9780922890361

Publisher: Armchair Detective Library, 1990

Synopsis

An archaeologist and amateur detective, Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody must interrupt her dig in Egypt to unravel a plot against her travelling companion, who has a tainted past

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Review:

Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Peters was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

You can learn more at:
ameliapeabody.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Armchair Detective Library
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0922890366
• ISBN 13: 9780922890361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262