Amelia Peabody · Book 20
The Painted Queen
- Published
- 25 July 2017
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780062083517
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Painted Queen (2017), the twentieth and final novel at 352 pages, was left unfinished when Elizabeth Peters -- the pen name of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz -- died in 2013. Fellow mystery novelist Joan Hess completed it from Peters' notes and outline, closing out the twenty-book saga that followed Amelia and Emerson from their 1884 marriage through Egypt's golden age of excavation.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Painted Queen is book 20 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows A River 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 9780062083517
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781472126825