THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS

Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz]

ISBN 10: 0396079636 ISBN 13: 9780396079637

Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1981

Language: English

Condition: Used Hardcover

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Inscribed first printing of the second Amelia Peabody mystery, set in Egypt during the 1890s and famously written by a trained Egyptologist. Once again a mysterious death brings Amelia Peabody back to Egypt in this follow up to the classic CROCODILE ON THE SANDBANK (1975). Egyptologist Barbara Mertz, writing as Elizabeth Peters, used her training to craft the world and work of Peabody, a no-nonsense woman of hard-earned experience and major antecedent to other beloved female sleuths like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone (who debuted in A IS FOR ALIBI a year later) and J.D. Robb's Eve Dallas. A beautiful copy, quite difficult to find signed. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cloth-backed grey boards. Original unclipped ($10.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Charles Geer. Blue endpapers. 358 pages. Inscribed by Peters to title page. Pencil owner name to front flyleaf. Jacket with mild bumping to corners and spine ends, a hint of sunning to spine. Binding with a touch of toning to edges. Sharp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

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Title

THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0396079636

ISBN 13

9780396079637

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Hardcover

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First edition.

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The witty, indefatigable Amelia Peabody--now married to the woman-hating archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson-eludes the villains and solves three murders in this adventure set among the archaeological digs in the Valley of the Kings

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I can't wait for the next Peabody story... I really do think [Elizabeth Peters'] books are great entertainment. (Angela Rippon)

A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key. (Washington Post Book World)

Think Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones... accomplished entertainment. (Guardian)

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