- Fiction, Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Women archaeologists, Egyptologists
A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he tells his secret, the husband-and-wife team sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped-and hampered-by their teenage son, Ramses, and beautiful ward, Nefret.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth Peters
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- C & R Press, G.K. Hall, Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780783817262
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“Through the open windows of the ballroom the soft night breeze of Egypt cooled the flushed faces of the dancers.”
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