Curse of the Pharaohs [electronic resource] : Amelia Peabody Series, Book 2
Peters, Elizabeth2012
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Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist , together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade When Lady Baskerville's husband Sir Henry dies after discovering what may have been an undisturbed royal tomb in Luxor, she appeals to eminent archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia to take over the excavation. Amid rumours of a curse haunting all those involved with the dig, the intrepid couple proceeds to Egypt, where they begin to suspect that Sir Henry did not die a natural death, and they are confident that the accidents that plague the dig are caused by a sinister human element, not a pharoah's curse
Main title:
Curse of the Pharaohs [electronic resource] : Amelia Peabody Series, Book 2 / Elizabeth Peters
Author:
Peters, Elizabeth, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Little, Brown Book Group, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Amelia Peabody
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
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.
ISBN:
9781780337470
Language:
English
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2761727
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