Amelia Peabody · Book 11

The Falcon at the Portal

by Elizabeth Peters

Published
1 January 1999
Pages
366
ISBN-13
9780380976584
Type
novel

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About this book

The Falcon at the Portal (1999), the eleventh entry at 366 pages, continues the Emerson family's story as it moves toward the turn of the century. Ramses, now older, takes an increasingly active role in the investigations his parents once handled largely on their own.

Its place in Amelia Peabody

The Falcon at the Portal is book 11 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Ape Who Guards the Balance. It is followed by He Shall Thunder in the Sky. 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…

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