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The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991) by Elizabeth Peters is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Bestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.From Publishers WeeklyIf Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson, an archeologist whose extraordinary adventures are guaranteed entertainment. This time Amelia, her handsome, fearless husband, Radcliffe, and their precocious 11-year-old son, Ramses, are in the Sudan, searching for archeologist Willoughby Forth, who disappeared 14 years earlier with his new wife. Rescued in the desert after every camel in their caravan dies, the Emersons are taken to a lost city where ancient Egyptian customs have been carried into modern times. There, entangled in two half-brothers' battle for the throne, Amelia and family fight for the freedom of the slave class while ferreting out the fate of Forth and his bride, and arranging to escape with their lives. Peters ( The Deeds of the Disturber ), who also writes as Barbara Michaels, laces her usual intricate plotting with Amelia's commonsense approach to hygiene and manners, and coyly delicate references to vigorous

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Elizabeth Peters
Publisher
Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published
1991
Language
EN
ISBN
9780446514835
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Rating
4.2 / 5 (98 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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