The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen . Klappentext After eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more—only to be ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of the Book of the Dead falls into their hands, and the corpse of an unscrupulous dealer in stolen antiquities is found floating in the Nile, the Emersons' prospects for surviving this excavation season unscathed appear increasingly dim. Zusammenfassung “Delightful….[An] engrossing plot and writing of the highest caliber.” — Washington Times   A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, wit, and fortitude than Indian Jones himself, the intrepid Amelia Peabody confronts danger and dark mystery in the desert sands of Egypt in The Ape Who Guards the Balance —a breathtaking adventure from New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters that encompasses treachery, villainy, bloodthirsty cults, the Book of the Dead…and murder most foul. The Charleston Post and Courier proclaims Elizabeth Peters “a mistress of plot,” while the New York Times Book Review declares, “Amelia remains an irrepressible delight.”

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Peters
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2010
• EAN: 9780061951633
• ISBN: 978-0-06-195163-3
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 192 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Amelia Peabody Series; Amelia Peabody; Amelia Peabody Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Ancient World