Amelia Peabody · Book 8
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.
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