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Loading... The Last Camel Died at Noonby Elizabeth PetersSeries: Amelia Peabody - Pub (6), Amelia Peabody - Chron (6)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Viscount Blacktower approaches the famous couple with a request to find his missing son and his son's bride in Sudan with a cryptic message and map. The survival in the desert and the introduction of Nefret make this book truly memorable. 1   nolak | May 6, 2009 |  Another excellent novel in the Amelia Peabody series: the ever confident Amelia and her explosive spouse take another unlikely detour, this time into lost civilization territory. Once there, they pick up Nefret, a picture and otherwise perfect addition to the recurring cast of characters. I continue to be charmed by the Emerson clan, but I like them best with their flaws on display. (  ) Harmless_Dilettante | Apr 27, 2008 | I was really disappointed with this book. I have read all the books in the series up to this one, and I really felt that this was not up to the standard of her other works. Maybe it is because I recently read King Solomon's Mines, but I found it disapointing that Elizabeth Peters chose to rewrite that book. It was especially annoying in light of the fact that Amelia Peabody always talks about how she is a big H. Rider Haggard fan. I found it unlikely, since the books are written as memoirs, that Amelia, who is quite intelligent, would create a plot exactly out of one of his books, knowing that her readers know she likes his stories, and also knowing that it would have been a fairly recent book at the time. I found myself reading to the end just to get through it, but the plot held not intrigue, since it was a flimsy reproduction. I will read the next book, in hopes that this is the only downer in an otherwise entertaining series. (  ) Crewman_Number_6 | Mar 7, 2008 | I like all the Amelia Peabody mysteries but, for me, this is the only "keeper" among them - so far. I really enjoy the H. Rider Haggard-inspired adventure story. Emerson makes a better RH protagonist than most of Haggard's heroes and the whole thing is great fun. Books-within-books: just in case we didn't read the author's homage to Haggard in the preface, just in case we didn't recognize what is being celebrated (parody is too harsh a word), the native prince actually pilfers and devours a copy of King Solomon's Mines - that explains it! Emerson groans: "He sounds exactly like one of those confounded natives in those confounded books!" Wonderful. ( ) muumi | Feb 3, 2008 | This is #6 in the Amelia Peabody series and introduces us to Nefret - a key figure in future books. It is hard for me to find critizism in any of the earlier Peabody works and this certainbly holds true for Last Camel. In this addition the Emersons are asked to search for a lost son and his wife. In doing so they come upon a 'lost' mysterious civilization. By the end the Emerson's have solved the mystery of the missing nobleman and his wife, have amassed quite a collection of artifacts for study, and Ramses their son is suffering from a bad case of puppy love for Nefret, who returns with them to England. A wholey enjoyable adventure. (  ) Mendoza | Sep 22, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 044651585X, Hardcover)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(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:20 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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