In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -at least that's what he thinks!
Reviews
"Dastardly deeds, whirlwind romances, curious mummies and all the fun and intrigue of Egyptian excavations, with a heroine who wields a sturdy parasol rather than a magnum. Accomplished entertainment." The Guardian
"Amelia Peabody is a force to be reckoned with, a female Indiana Jones of the late-19th century. Setting out on her travels in Crocodile on the Sandbank, aged 32, clutching her journal and parasol, she is determined to see the real Egypt. In Rome, she recruits Evelyn, a young aristocratic English girl who has been cruelly abandoned by her Italian lover, as a companion, and the pair sail up the Nile, into the middle of a dastardly plot.... All good ingredients for crime thrillers, and these are gripping." (Kirkus UK)
Author Biography
Elizabeth Peters is a prolific and successful novelist with over fifty novels to her credit. She is internationally renowned for her mystery stories, especially those featuring indomitable heroine Amelia Peabody. She lives in a historic farmhouse in Frederick, Maryland, with six cats and two dogs.
