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Crocodile on the Sandbank: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Crocodile on the Sandbank An Amelia Peabody Mystery Author:Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody, 32-year-old Victorian gentlewoman, inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first was indispensible in allowing her to indulge in her life's passion: Egyptology. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all. Promptly upon her father's death, Amelia takes... more » ship for Cairo. But her companion, Miss Pritchett, succumbs to typhoid in Rome -- weakminded female that she is. That's just when an unexpected distraction drops, more or less, at Amelia's feet. What happens next makes for a delicious mystery and pyramids of fun. (9 compact discs/10 hours)« less