The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog Hardcover - 1992
by Barbara Mertz
From the acclaimed author of The Last Camel Died at Noon comes the seventh delightful novel to star Peters' most popular heroine, the 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. In her boldest, most brilliant escapade ever, Amelia's dashing husband Emerson is kidnapped. After a daring rescue, Amelia is horrified to discover that her husband has amnesia--and remembers nothing of her, or of their marriage.
From the rear cover
A brand-new Elizabeth Peters novel is one of the uncompromising pleasures in life. 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". 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. 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. 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'scurse. 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. So cunning was his scheme that Amelia might overlook - until it was too late - the truth about the mysterious cat called Anubis, the identity of the spy among their retinue, and the nature of the stunning blow that could rob her of all she held dear. A quintessential Elizabeth Peters adventure, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog will sweep readers toward an ingenious climax designed to shock and utterly surprise us all.
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- Title The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
- Author Barbara Mertz
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 340
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
- Date 1992-10-12
- ISBN 9780446515856 / 044651585X
- Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.36 x 1.22 in (23.42 x 16.15 x 3.10 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Egypt
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92054096
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/1992, Page 1973
- Library Journal, 07/01/1992, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 07/27/1992, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 02/01/1993, Page 127
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