Amelia Peabody · Book 10
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780380798568
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998), the tenth novel at 400 pages, keeps the twenty-book series moving through the Emersons' Egyptian digs and family life at its rough chronological midpoint. Like its neighbors, it pairs a country-house-mystery plot with real archaeological history.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Ape Who Guards the Balance is book 10 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows Seeing a Large Cat. It is followed by The Falcon at the Portal. 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 9780380798568