The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, Book 7)

In her previous outing, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, discovered a fabulous lost oasis in the Nubian desert. Now, the Emerson-Peabodys are traveling up the Nile once again to encounter their most deadly adversary, the Master Criminal. Amelia Peabody was unabashedly proud of her newest translation, a fragment of the ancient fairytale "The Doomed Prince." 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. 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. 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. 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. But their return would threaten not only their marriage, but their very lives with perils as chilling as a mummy's curse. 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.

the Delightful Seventh Adventure For Popular Heroine Amelia Peabody. The 19th-century Egyptologist And Her Dashing Husband, Emerson, Return To Amarna, Where They First Fell In Love. When Emerson Is Kidnapped, Amelia Must Rescue Her Husband, Find The Culprit, And Save Her Marriage.

publishers Weekly

indomitable Amelia Peabody Is Nearly Undone In The Latest Romantic Thriller To Feature This Strong-minded Victorian Archeologist And Her Husband, Radcliffe Emerson. Leaving In England Their Precocious Son Ramses And Nefret, An Orphan Girl Whom They Rescued From An Ancient Sudanese City In The Last Camel Died At Noon , Amelia And Emerson Return To Egypt. Assorted Kidnapping Attempts, Including One From Shepheard's Hotel, Suggest That Someone, Probably Their Archenemy (known As The Master Criminal), Seeks To Uncover The Location Of Nefret's Lost City Of Gold. Amelia Courageously Rescues Emerson After He Is Abducted, Only To Find He Has Lost His Memory, Even Of His Love For Her. In The Company Of Wealthy American Archeologist Cyrus Vandergelt, They Proceed To A Dig To Search For Nefertiti's Tomb, Where Amelia Tries To Awaken Emerson's Memory While Hoping To Disprove An Ancient Superstition That Threatens Death By Snake, Crocodile And Dog. Amelia, Beset By Doubt But Undaunted, Is In Top Form As Peters Supplies A Surprise Ending To Cap Her Surefire Entertainment. 50,000 First Printing; Author Tour. (oct.)

With Nefret, now a ward of Amelia and Emerson, and Ramses at home pursuing their studies, the couple returns to Amarna in 1898 for a dig that promises to be just like old times. The trip turns out to be more like old times than they plan, however, when they become the targets of a Master Criminal's evil plot. Emerson is kidnapped, and Amelia rescues him to discover that he has lost his memory. Tantalizingly close to her most important discovery yet, a tomb that may have been Nefertiti's, Amelia needs to turn her attention to regaining her husband's love. -- from the publisher SUMMARY: The delightful seventh adventure for popular heroine Amelia Peabody. The 19th-century Egyptologist and her dashing husband, Emerson, return to Amarna, where they first fell in love. When Emerson is kidnapped, Amelia must rescue her husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage. As she and her husband travel down the Nile to the remote desert site of Amarna, Amelia Peabody is forced to disclose a dangerous secret I believe I may truthfully claim that I have never been daunted by danger or drudgery Of the two I much prefer the former. Amelia Peabody and her husband's lives are threatened when they embark for the pyramids of ancient Egypt