Elizabeth Peters

Broschiertes Buch

Guardian of the Horizon

Beschreibung

Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to flee to Germany to avoid temptation. Then a mysterious visitor changes the plan for the whole family.

Autor

Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels, and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor, at the Malice Domestic convention. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.

Produktdetails

• Amelia Peabody
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781845295639
• ISBN-10: 1845295633
• Artikelnr.: 23260120