Crocodile on the sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

First published 1975 · 281 pages

About this book

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.

  • Fiction
  • Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character)
  • Women archaeologists
  • Archaeologists' spouses
  • Mystery
  • Egypt, fiction
  • Fiction, historical
  • Women archaeologists, fiction

Books like Crocodile on the sandbank

Find books like this

More by Elizabeth Peters