Amelia Peabody · Book 7
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9781841194844
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (1992), the seventh entry at 400 pages, followed The Last Camel Died at Noon the year after, keeping the Emersons' excavation seasons and family drama moving forward through the 1890s. Son Ramses, still a child in this stretch of the series, continues to grow into the point-of-view character he later becomes.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog is book 7 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Last Camel Died at Noon. It is followed by The Hippopotamus Pool. 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 9781841194844
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780816156818