Amelia Peabody · Book 11
The Falcon at the Portal
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 366
- ISBN-13
- 9780380976584
- Type
- novel

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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380976584