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.
Key facts about The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Last Camel Died at Noon is a novel by Elizabeth Peters. Readers have had it since 1991. It runs to 320 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Last Camel Died at Noon. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781841193878 to find the main one.
The Last Camel Died at Noon is book 6 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 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