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The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Elizabeth Peters

"Delightful....[An] engrossing plot and writing of the highest caliber."

--Washington Times

A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, wit, and fortitude than Indian Jones himself, the intrepid Amelia Peabody confronts danger and dark mystery in the desert sands of Egypt in The Ape Who Guards the Balance--a breathtaking adventure from New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters that encompasses treachery, villainy, bloodthirsty cults, the Book of the Dead...and murder most foul. The Charleston Post and Courier proclaims Elizabeth Peters "a mistress of plot," while the New York Times Book Review declares, "Amelia remains an irrepressible delight."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper
  • Publish Date: Feb 23rd, 2010
  • Pages: 576
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.56in - 4.34in - 1.36in - 0.67lb
  • EAN: 9780061951633
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Women SleuthsMystery & Detective - HistoricalHistorical - General

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About the Author

Peters, Elizabeth: -

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.

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Praise for this book

"SO MUCH LOCAL COLOR THAT I FELT AS THOUGH I WERE ON VACATION!"

The Los Angeles Times

"A new Amelia Peabody mystery is like visiting old friends." -- "USA Today""Peters' witty writing and her cast of outrageous characters move the story along at a brisk pace." -- "San Francisco Examiner"