This was absolutely delightful in audio, and I have no doubt but that I will listen to it again at some point.
While Ramses and Nefret don't rejoin the Emersons physically, we learn through a series of amusing letters from Ramses that they too are facing a number of threats. All of the threats seem to relate to their last adventure and the wonders they discovered in The Last Camel Died at Noon. When Amelia and Emerson eventually head off to Egypt, Nefret (and of course Ramses) decide to stay in England with Walter and Evelyn.Īmelia and Emerson encounter a host of troubles - and crimes - while in Egypt, from kidnappings, attempted kidnappings, murders, and numerous threats. The book opens with the Emersons in England, trying to settle Nefret into English society. I didn't remember a lot of the details and thoroughly enjoyed this re-read. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.This was my first re-read of the 7th entry in the Amelia Peabody series in audio. So cunning was his scheme that Amelia might ove An old enemy was determined to learn Amelia and Emerson's most closely guarded secret: the location of a legendary long-lost oasis and a race of people bedecked in gold. But their return would threaten not only their marriage, but their very lives with perils as chilling as a mummy'scurse. She and her dear Emerson were returning to the remote desert site where they had first fallen in love, Amarna, the holy city of Akhenaton and his beautiful queen, Nefertiti. The expedition began so happily.Leaving their delightful, but catastrophically precocious, son, Ramses, back in England, Amelia hoped this romantic trip might rejuvenate her thirteen-year-old marriage and bring back the thrills that she feared were fading. Little did she realize, as she and her beloved husband sailed blissfully toward the pyramids of ancient Egypt, that those very beasts (and a cat as well) would be part of a deadly plot.
Later, she would wonder why no sense of foreboding struck her as she retold the story of the king's favorite son who had been warned that he would die from the snake, the crocodile, or the dog. Amelia Peabody was unabashedly proud of her newest translation, a fragment of the ancient fairytale "The Doomed Prince". Now, in the seventh mystery in the series, the Emerson-Peabodys are traveling up the Nile once again to encounter their most deadly adversary, the Master Criminal, who is back at his sinister best. In her previous outing, The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia Peabody and her dashing husband, Emerson, discovered a fabulous lost oasis in the Nubian desert. As Peter Theroux in the New York Times Book Review points out, "Her wonderfully witty voice and her penchant for history lessons of the Nile both ancient and modern keep (her) high adventure moving for even the highest brows". A brand-new Elizabeth Peters novel is one of the uncompromising pleasures in life.
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