Amelia Peabody · Book 17
The Serpent on the Crown
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 350
- ISBN-13
- 9781845292683
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Serpent on the Crown (2005), the seventeenth novel at 350 pages, returns to the Emersons' more straightforward forward-moving timeline after the flashback interlude of Guardian of the Horizon. It continues the family's excavation seasons as the series approaches its final stretch.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Serpent on the Crown is book 17 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows Guardian of the Horizon. It is followed by Tomb of the Golden Bird. 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 9780060760137
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060760120
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781845292683