Elizabeth Peters
The Painted Queen
An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense
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Set during the golden age of Egyptian archaeology, in a mysterious and exotic land of ancient gods and dark secrets, priceless treasures and cutthroat criminals, the Amelia Peabody mystery series has enthralled fans for decades. Now the daring exploits of the formidable amateur sleuth culminate in this thrilling final adventure.Shortly after arriving in Cairo for the 1912–1913 excavation season, Amelia Peabody is relaxing in a well-earned bath in her elegant hotel suite when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber and utters a single word—“Murder!”—before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few po…
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Set during the golden age of Egyptian archaeology, in a mysterious and exotic land of ancient gods and dark secrets, priceless treasures and cutthroat criminals, the Amelia Peabody mystery series has enthralled fans for decades. Now the daring exploits of the formidable amateur sleuth culminate in this thrilling final adventure.Shortly after arriving in Cairo for the 1912–1913 excavation season, Amelia Peabody is relaxing in a well-earned bath in her elegant hotel suite when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber and utters a single word—“Murder!”—before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few possessions he carried was a sheet of paper with Amelia’s name and room number, and a curious piece of pasteboard the size of a calling card bearing one word: “Judas.” Most peculiarly, the stranger was wearing a gold-rimmed monocle in his left eye. It quickly becomes apparent that someone saved Amelia from a would-be assassin—someone who is keeping a careful eye on the intrepid Englishwoman. After discovering a terse note clearly meant for Emerson—“Where were you?”—pushed under their door, Amelia knows that only one person can be that “someone”: the brilliant master of disguise, Sethos. But neither assassins nor the Genius of Crime will deter Amelia as she and Emerson head to the excavation site at Amarna, where a priceless treasure was recently discovered: the iconic Nefertiti bust, crafted in 1345 b.c. by the sculptor Thutmose in tribute to the great beauty of this queen, who was also the chief consort of Pharaoh Akhenaton and stepmother to Tutankhamen. It is one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts ever found . . . and now, it seems, it is unaccountably missing.For Amelia, this excavation season will prove to be unforgettable. Throughout her journey, a parade of men in monocles will die under suspicious circumstances, fascinating new relics will be unearthed, a murderous quest for vengeance will be thwarted, and a diabolical mystery will be solved at last.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hess, Joan
- ISBN: 978-0-06-208351-7
- EAN: 9780062083517
- Produktnummer: 21121743
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.8 cm 512 g
- Gewicht: 512
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen. Joan Hess was the author of the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the Arly Hanks Mysteries, formally known as the Maggody Mysteries. She was a winner of the American Mystery Award and the Agatha Award (for which she was nominated five times), a member of Sisters in Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She died in November 2017, four months after the publication of The Painted Queen.
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