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Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!

In this first adventure, our headstrong 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, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!

'Think Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones... 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.' Guardian

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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 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

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. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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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 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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"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." --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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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. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The first Amelia Peabody adventure, in which she comes into her inheritance and decides to see the world. Rescuing Evelyn Barton-Forbes on her way, she arrives in Egypt where they meet Radcliffe Emerson, an archaeologist who doesn't need help from women - or so he thinks. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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"A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key" --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005E8832K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ C & R Crime (1 Sept. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1012 KB
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ELIZABETH PETERS, whose New York Times best-selling novels are often set against historical backdrops, earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She also writes best-selling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. She lives in Frederick, Maryland.

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rodders69

ripping yarn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2017

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I chose this because it seemed like a change of pace from my usual fare of action and sci-fi. From the description, i expected a Poirot style story. What i got was a sort of Victorian era Laura Croft. It is fairly well written and the story is plausible. The author tended to 'bull' through the plot a little. In some chapters, the carefully constructed larger than life main character profiles were ignored to allow the conspiracy to continue. An instance of this is the fact that none of the experienced archaeologists seemed to know how to handle a firearm, or that someone dressed in a mummy suit was able to run much faster than the unencumbered chaser.
Despite this, It was an easy read and I read the book in two sittings, anxious to find out whodunnit. A good holiday read, but not Agatha Christie.

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Mashara

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2019

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I found this book entertaining. I did not in any way fall in love with either Annabelle or Emerson and do not feel compelled to follow anymore of their adventures.
There's WAY too many instances of a generalizations about what the Egyptians, Latin and "natives" are or do or think of, and even tho these assumptions are on some occasions called out, those characters never get the mic. Their words are not ever present in dialogue, only their recap done by Annabelle. When all white or Europeans get to have their words on the page, the difference is stark.
I'm not fully offended by the book, merely disappointed, but uninterested in taking a chance to be fully offended in following books, when I didn't find this one engaging enough.

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Bronwen Salter-Murison

The start of a wonderful series!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2016

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Oh how I love this series! This is the first of the Amelia Peabody books. I bought this copy because I'd read my first one until it fell to bits! Amelia is a Victorian English lady of very unusual character. Like all Elizabeth Peters' heroines she is astonishingly brave, open-minded and warm hearted. Becoming well-off if not wealthy on the death of her father she sets off to travel and ends up in Egypt. There she discovers two great passions, the first being archaeology. I find it hard to describe what's so great about these books without giving any of the plot away. But Amelia is no conventional romantic heroine. She is fiery and staunchly independent. She is one of my favourite characters in fiction.

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Martin Belcher

Agatha Christie meets Indiana Jones!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2012

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This is one of those recommendations through Amazon and after I read a few reviews it caught my interest, so I downloaded a sample to my Kindle and was immediately hooked and bought the full version. Crocodile on the Sandbank is the first book in quite a large series of novels featuring a rather upper class, Victorian lady called Amelia Peabody, she has a passion for Egyptology and Archaeology and after inheriting some money from her late father she decides to indulge her passion on a grand tour trip to Rome and then on to Cairo and the pyramids and excavations lower down the Nile. This is a very enjoyable read, it's Agatha Christe meets Indiana Jones, full of laughs, gasps, entertainment and lots of Egyptology (if that's your thing). I thoroughly enjoyed it and shall definitely read some more in the series. The only reason I give this book four stars instead of five is the continual feminist theme running through the book, I almost get the feeling the author hates men! There is good and bad in both sexes and after a few chapters of reading sentences of how men can never do anything right gets a tad bit irritating; that aside it's still a good read.

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Marguerite

My first Amelia Peabody but not my last

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2013

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I read this because Amelia Peabody's name keeps cropping up when people list their favourite books. I was a bit sceptical at first, but I downloaded this, the very first book in the series, and was pleasantly surprised. The narrative races along, Amelia is a fab character, feisty, opinionated, sometimes pompous, but willing to admit when she's wrong, and above all, she's curious about the world. I loved the interplay between her and Emerson, and I really enjoyed what felt like an authentic representation of Egypt at a time when the Victorians and much of the world were fighting for supremacy, both politically, economically, and scientifically. I will definitely be reading more of this series, though I think I need to take Amelia in small doses and I doubt I'll read all 24 or whatever there are, but I'd recommend this as a light, fun, entertaining but historically authentic read.

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Mrs. J. H. Gentis

Good light reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2019

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This is a good read. Enough of the Indiana Jones, with a touch of humour. Something to take you away from the humbrum of everyday and light enough to put down and pick up. I enjoyed reading it.

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Bitzylicious

Delightful escapism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2019

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I completely lost myself in this book, although not my usual genre I fancied a change. It's not difficult to picture the characters and hear them too. My love of Egypt bought back many memories from my visits over the last 40 years and made me yearn to go back, hopefully soon, circumstances in that beautiful country permitting.

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E. A. M. Clark

Fun and romance in Victorian Egypt !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2016

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Elizabeth Peters has created a bossy,self_opinionated spinster who,in the course of her travels ,rescues a destitute Englishwoman ,solves an eerie mystery and falls completely in love with an equally bossy,self-opinionated archaeologist !
Amelia Peabody is a vibrant, delightful character who is impossible to dislike,even though ,in real life ,I would want to brain her with the nearest shovel !
Real escapism ,well-written and fun .

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