Crocodile on the Sandbank

Peters, Elizabeth

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9781433204852: Crocodile on the Sandbank

ISBN 10: 1433204851 ISBN 13: 9781433204852

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2007

After her father's death, thirty-two-year-old Amelia Peabody eschews the role of Victorian spinster and travels to Egypt, where mysterious intruders, boorish archaeologists, and a disappearing two-thousand-year-old mummy test her sanity and independence. Read by Susan O'Malley. Book available.

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Review:

Elizabeth Peters' 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. --Coco Avondale

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"A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key" -- Washington Post Bookworld

"Dastardly deeds, whirlwind romances, curious mummies and all the fun and intrigue of Egyptian excavations, with a heroine who wields a sturdy parasol rather than a magnum. Accomplished entertainment." -- The Guardian

'Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it's Amelia - in wit and daring - by a landslide' -- The New York Times Book Review

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