By: Elizabeth Peters
Genre: Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Historical
Warner
October 1, 1992
On Sale: October 1, 1992
Featuring: Amelia Peabody
430 pages
ISBN: 0446363383
EAN: 9780446363389
Kindle: B0035II97U
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Book Summary
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on a papyrus and a cryptic map had been delivered to Blacktower, awakening his hope that the couple was still alive. Neither Amelia nor Emerson believe the message is authentic, but the treasure map proves an irresistible temptation.
Now, deep in Nubia's vast wasteland, they discover too late how much treachery is afoot (and on camelback)... and survival depends on Amelia's solving a mystery as old as ancient Egypt and as timeless as greed and revenge.
