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Loading... The Falcon at the Portalby Elizabeth PetersSeries: Amelia Peabody - Pub (11), Amelia Peabody - Chron (12)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Amelia returns to Egypt with a cloak of suspicion over David for doing counterfeit egyptian work, but a murder on site puzzles them wondering about the connection and Ramses becomes involved with trying to crack a drug ring with the police. All these incidents are very puzzling, but they become connected, even with Amelia's nephew's half Egyptian offspring who is mistaken as being Ramses. It ends sadly, but at a cliff-hanger, so you must hurry on to the next book!!  nolak | May 20, 2009 |  This is actually the first Amelia Peabody book I read when I purchased the paperback at an LAX airport bookstore. I can't remember where I was going since I wouldn't have purchased the book if I had just arrived home. Anyway, I then found and read the previous ten books that make up the Amelia Peabody stories and fell in love with them. (  ) MeijiBlack | Apr 27, 2007 | A wonderfully complex, beautifully written book with an interesting plot and, as usual, colorful characters. (  ) NewsieQ | Mar 27, 2007 | This is my favorite of all her novels about Amelia Peabody Emerson. Most of the others are more fun, but none of them is more affecting. ( ) picardyrose | Mar 2, 2007 | Amelia Peabody #11 ( ) shelley582 | Feb 3, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0380798573, Mass Market Paperback)"'Really,' I thought in mounting exasperation, 'there never was a household in which so many people felt free to offer their unsolicited opinions!'" This, of course, is the eminent Egyptologist and dedicated crime solver Amelia Peabody, setting the stage and the tone (an updated Oscar Wildean irony) for Elizabeth Peters's 11th book. And it's true that there are no shrinking violets in this particular household, from the redoubtable Amelia and her hot-tempered archaeologist husband Emerson (his native diggers call him the Father of Curses), to their dashing, unpredictable son Ramses (born Walter). Also, let's not forget their lovely ward, Nefret (rescued from a desert tribe several books back), and their butler, Gargery, "who wields a cudgel as handily as he carves a roast."As she has so many times before, Peters presents us with this quaint--even campy--little group of people, plops them down in an exotic Egyptian setting, and then surprises us by involving them in a story of great strength and emotion. It's 1911, and David Todros, a young Egyptian who has just married into the Peabody family, is suspected of dealing in forged antiquities, possibly to help support a rising nationalist movement. Amelia, Emerson, Ramses, and Nefret all take various actions to help David, and there are serious, dangerous consequences for everyone involved. Despite the melodramatic setting and the theatrical language, Peters's story is--as always--modern, believable, and exciting. Other books in the Peabody series available in paperback are The Ape Who Guards the Balance, The Crocodile on the Sandbank, The Curse of the Pharaohs, and The Hippopotamus Pool. --Dick Adler (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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