Amelia Peabody · Book 18
Tomb of the Golden Bird
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN-13
- 9781845293369
- Type
- novel

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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781419383069
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060591809
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781845293369