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Crocodile on the sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters

Label
Crocodile on the sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Crocodile on the sandbank
Oclc number
1130123
Responsibility statement
by Elizabeth Peters
Series statement
Amelia Peabody mysteries, 1
Summary
32-year-old Victorian gentlewoman, Amelia Peabody receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets 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, 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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