Amelia Peabody · Book 18

Tomb of the Golden Bird

Published
1 January 2006
Pages
576
ISBN-13
9781845293369
Type
novel
Cover of Tomb of the Golden Bird

About this book

Tomb of the Golden Bird (2006), the eighteenth entry at 576 pages, is among the longest novels in the series and arrives as the Emersons' story nears the 1920s -- the era of Egypt's most famous excavation, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, that the series was always building toward. It sits between The Serpent on the Crown and A River in the Sky.

Key facts about Tomb of the Golden Bird

Tomb of the Golden Bird is a novel by Elizabeth Peters. Readers have had it since 2006. It runs to 576 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Tomb of the Golden Bird. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781845293369 to find the main one.

Tomb of the Golden Bird is book 18 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

Tomb of the Golden Bird is book 18 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Serpent on the Crown. It is followed by 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…

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