Carla B. (puppyluv) reviewed on 5/5/2007 + 552 more book reviews

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Series: Amelia Peabody Series, #13
From Our Editors
The year is 1915, and despite desperate warnings from friends and family, Amelia Peabody and her handsome archaeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, risk life, limb and Amelia's second-best hat to embark on another season of exploration. But German submarines and warring Senussi aren't all Amelia and Emerson have to worry about. A fresh -- but not fresh enough -- body has turned up in the tomb they are excavating. A lost but not forgotten enemy has returned. The omens are ominous. And as the long, hot Cairo days give way to nights, danger stalks Amelia and her family, reaching out from the shadows as it never has before ...

From the Publisher
Elizabeth Peters follows her smash New York Times bestseller He Shall Thunder in the Sky with a superb new tale filled with danger, intrigue, and sparkling wit.
Dateline: Cairo and environs, 1915. Risking life, limb, and her second-best hat, the intrepid Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her irascible, handsome archaeologist husband defy German submarines and warring Senussi to embark on another season of exploration and crime-solving.

When a freshbut not fresh enoughbody turns up in the tomb they are excavating, Amelia vows to protect her family and find the killer no matter what the cost.

Filled with surprises, including the return of a long-lost but certainly not forgotten enemy, here is deliciously dangerous entertainment starring fiction's best loved and most indomitable sleuth.


Synopsis
In the newest "Amelia Peabody Mystery", the intrepid Egyptologist risks life, limb, and her second-best hat in 1915 Cairo. Amelia and her handsome archeologist husband defy German submarines and warring Senussi to embark on another season of exploration and crime solving. Endpaper maps.

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