Crocodile on the Sandbank

Zusatztext Think Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones... accomplished entertainment. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels, and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor, at the Malice Domestic convention. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen . Klappentext In this adventure, the heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes, and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies, and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist. Zusammenfassung In this adventure, the heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes, and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies, and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Peters, Elizabeth Peters
• Publisher: Constable
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.05.2006
• EAN: 9781845293888
• ISBN: 978-1-84529-388-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Amelia Peabody; Amelia Peabody
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical mysteries, Crime & mystery, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, Archaeology by period / region, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Ancient Egypt