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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780445406513
ISBN number: 0445406518
Label: Mysterious Press
Manufacturer: Mysterious Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: January 01, 1988
Publishing house: Mysterious Press
Sale Popularity Level: 15709
Studio: Mysterious Press
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Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.
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Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her very 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.
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I'll be frank when I say that my opinion of this book is biased since it combines my love of Egypt, archaeology, and women who like to roll around in the dirt. But even so, this was a great book. The characters, the setting, the mystery (although none too mysterious) all really worked for me. Enough to the point where they managed to overcome my usual dislike of diary style writing and period language. I'll definitely be picking up the subsequent one...as soon as I'm done with this review in fact!
The story starts out with our hero, self-described "middle aged spinster", Amelia Peabody coming into a considerable inheritance. With no husband, would be suitor, or close family to stop her, she takes her money and embarks on a traveling holiday to the place she most wants to visit: Egypt. During a stop in Rome, she meets Evelyn, a down on her luck woman with a tragic story to tell. She enlists her company as a traveling companion and the two quickly form a close sisterly bond. After making it to Cairo, and paying a visit to the British museum, the two women meet the Emerson brothers. Older brother Radcliffe is loud, crude, and has a wicked temper, managing to butt heads with equally outspoken Amelia almost instantaneously. Shy younger brother Walter is instantly smitten with Evelyn, and she returns his feelings, but feels that nothing can ever come of it due to her past. The women depart Cairo and begin their journey along the Nile, eventually ending up at Amarna, the very site the Emerson brothers are excavating. They arrive to find Radcliffe gravely ill, throwing a wrench into the progress of his precious expedition. Amelia, who has always wanted to be a doctor, nurses him back to health. And he is none to happy the be in her debt. By this time, there are bigger problems as a nocturnal visitor is frightening away workers, destroying precious artifacts, and eventually trying to kidnap Evelyn!
The solution to the mystery is fairly obvious which manages to take away some suspense. But some of the descriptions of places and people are more than creepy enough to make up for it. And Amelia herself is absolutely charming. Well, as charming as a stubborn, outspoken, know it all woman armed with a parasol and a sharp tongue can be. Her and Emerson are a perfect foil for one another, and her relationship with Evelyn is absolutely touching. I most definitely enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who loves Egypt, light mystery, strong characters, and anything by Agatha Christie!
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Amelia Peabody is not your typical Victorian-age woman. When she inherits her father's sizable estate, she decides to fulfill a life-long dream of traveling the world rather than doing something more conventional - like getting married. She heads to Egypt where she meets Evelyn, a young lady with more than her share of baggage. The two join forces, and soon Amelia must discover the sinister forces seeking to destroy Evelyn, or risk losing her closest friend.
This book is so much fun! It's as if Agatha Christie wrote a female Indiana Jones-style character, with a dash of the humour and spunk that characterizes the character of Evelyn from The Mummy movies. My favorite Christie mysteries were always the ones set in Egypt, and since the number of those books are finite I'm thrilled to have a new historical Egyptian mystery series to explore. Crocodile delivers atmosphere and historical detail in spades. Though the villain is a tad obvious, it didn't impact my enjoyment of the story since the real strength is in Amelia's prickly, blunt, forthright character...it's absolutely hilarious watching her budding relationship with Radcliffe Emerson unfold as they butt heads over archaeological methods. I'm looking forward to continuing the series and seeing where Amelia's thirst for adventure takes her next!
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I don't know what took me so long to find this series, but wow, I'm sure glad I did. Crocodile on the Sandbank was witty, fun and it was neat to learn about Egyptology while I read a great mystery. I won't go into all of the details seeing as this book has plenty of reviews, but I just had to add my kudos here. I can't wait to go out and buy the subsequent book in this series, and to thank the friend who recommended it to me.
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A delightful, entertaining, well written novel that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Don't expect a terrible lot of plot twists that aren't obvious to the reader far before being pointed out in the prose, but the characterizations and narrative make up for the lack of intrigue.
Featuring intelligent heroines, well-researched Egyptology and a smattering of romance the action paced well and I never bored of the writing or skipped passages to hurry it along. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
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Our bookclub read this and the majority of the people thought it was an excellent read. The reviewer added a great deal by sharing her experiences at the location of the story in Egypt. I was fascinated by the main character and her bravado as a woman diuring the Victorian era. I am ready to read some of the books that follow in this very first in a series of eighteen. I found it hard to put down, a few folks in our group didn't find it that interesting. Worth my time!
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