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.
Key facts about The Ape Who Guards the Balance
The Ape Who Guards the Balance is a novel by Elizabeth Peters. Readers have had it since 1998. It runs to 400 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Ape Who Guards the Balance. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780380798568 to find the main one.
The Ape Who Guards the Balance is book 10 of 20 in the Amelia Peabody series. The series has 20 published books. However, the series starts with Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975). 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
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