Amelia Peabody · Book 1
Crocodile on the Sandbank
- Published
- 1 January 1975
- Pages
- 281
- ISBN-13
- 9780449027523
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975, 281 pages) opens the series and introduces Amelia Peabody, a sharp-tongued Victorian Egyptologist unwilling to accept the limits her era placed on women -- and the book where she meets her match and future husband, the brilliant, foul-mouthed archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson. It sets the template the next nineteen novels follow: dry first-person narration, real Egyptology, and a country-house-mystery plot transplanted to an archaeological dig.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
Crocodile on the Sandbank is book 1 in the Amelia Peabody series. It is followed by The Curse of the Pharaohs. See the full Amelia Peabody reading order.
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody novels follow a formidable Victorian Egyptologist and amateur detective through four decades of archaeological digs, family drama, and murder along the Nile. Amelia Peabody Emerson — sharp-tongued, parasol-wielding, utterly unwilling to accept the limits Victorian and Edwardian society placed on women — meets her match and husband, the brilliant, foul-mouthed archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson, in the first book, and the series follows their marriage, their excavations of real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780449027523