Amelia Peabody · Book 6
The Last Camel Died at Noon
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781841193878
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Last Camel Died at Noon (1991), the sixth novel at 320 pages, arrived after a three-year gap and pushes the Emersons into a more overtly adventure-novel register, echoing the classic lost-world fiction Peters was clearly playing with. It continues to follow Amelia, Emerson and their growing family through Egypt's golden age of excavation.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Last Camel Died at Noon is book 6 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Deeds of the Disturber. It is followed by The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog. 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 9781841193878
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780816153572