- Fiction, Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Women archaeologists, Archaeologists' spouses
One of the best-loved of mystery writers weaves another tale of intrigue featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe of Crocodile on the Sandbank. This time the willful and witty duo must catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb.
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Classical in form, resolved, cool and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Elizabeth Peters
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 357
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing, Souvenir, Dodd, Mead
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781455572366
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