The Hippopotamus Pool
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781841194851
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hippopotamus Pool (1996), the eighth novel at 320 pages, arrived after a four-year gap and returns the Emersons to a fresh excavation season on the Nile. As throughout the series, Amelia's dry, self-satisfied narration -- convinced she's never wrong even when she plainly is -- carries the mystery plot alongside genuine Egyptological research.
Key facts about The Hippopotamus Pool
Elizabeth Peters wrote The Hippopotamus Pool, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1996. The book has 320 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781841194851 to find the main one.
The Hippopotamus Pool is book 8 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 Hippopotamus Pool is book 8 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog. It is followed by Seeing a Large Cat. 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 9781841194851