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The Painted Queen by Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Egypt, 1912—Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins. Arriving in Cairo, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo, when a man with knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber and utters a single word—"Murder"—before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few possessions he carried was a sheet of paper with Amelia’s name and room number, and a curious piece of pasteboard the size of a calling card bearing one word: "Judas." Most peculiarly, the stranger was wearing a gold-rimmed monocle in his left eye. It quickly becomes apparent that someone saved Amelia from a would-be assassin—someone who is keeping a careful eye on the intrepid Englishwoman. Discovering a terse note clearly meant for Emerson—Where were you?"—pushed under their door, there can be only one answer: the brilliant master of disguise, Sethos. But neither assassins nor the Genius of Crime will deter Amelia as she and Emerson head to the excavation site at Amarna, where they w

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
2017
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical
Rating
3.62 / 5 (211 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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