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As she and her husband travel down the Nile to the remote desert site of Amarna, Amelia Peabody is forced to disclose a dangerous secret. By the author of The Last Camel Died at Noon. Reprint. PW. LJ.
Amelila Peabody was unabashedly proud of her newest translation, a fragment of... read more
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- Amelia Peabody Emerson: Spinster daughter who inherits her scholarly father's fortune and sets out to see the Egypt of her studies, where she meets and eventually marries Radcliffe Emerson, an Egyptologist of some reknown. Peabody, as Emerson calls her is never without her trusty parasol, tea and the invincible belief that she can handle any danger that comes along.
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- Walter "Ramses" Peabody Emerson
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- Abdullah
- Karl Von Bork
- Kevin O'Connell
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I believe I may truthfully claim that I have never been daunted by danger or drudgery.
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This is book 7 of 19 in Amelia Peabody. (standard series)
Preceded by The Last Camel Died at Noon, and followed by The Hippopotamus Pool.
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- Elizabeth Peters (Author)
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Page Count: 340
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- Dewey: 813.54
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