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.
Key facts about Crocodile on the Sandbank
Crocodile on the Sandbank is a novel by Elizabeth Peters. Readers have had it since 1975. It runs to 281 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Crocodile on the Sandbank. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780449027523 to find the main one.
Crocodile on the Sandbank is book 1 of 20 in the Amelia Peabody series. The series has 20 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Painted Queen is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 25 July 2017.
Additionally, Elizabeth Peters writes Vicky Bliss and Jacqueline Kirby as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and historical mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Painted Queen is the latest published Elizabeth Peters book on file, from 25 July 2017.
About Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters was the pen name of Barbara Mertz, an American author with a PhD in Egyptology who used that academic background to write the Amelia Peabody series, following a formidable Victorian Egyptologist and her family through decades of archaeological adventure and murder mystery in and around real excavation sites in Egypt. See every Elizabeth Peters book in order.
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