| The Falcon at the Portal Contributor(s): Peters, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061951641 ISBN-13: 9780061951640 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: February 2010 Annotation: Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archaeological season, and Amelia ends up investigating a theft of ancient artifacts and the death of an American found at the bottom of an excavation shaft. As accusations of drug dealing and moral misconduct fly, a child of mysterious antecedents sparks a crisis that threatens to tear the family apart. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Amelia Peabody |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 4.34" W x 7.56" (0.71 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - East Africa - Cultural Region - North Africa |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 31235 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 23.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it's Amelia--in wit and daring--by a landslide."--New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters transports us to the Land of the Pharoahs--and leaves us in the most capable hands of intrepid archeologist and adventurer Amelia Peabody--in The Falcon at the Portal. A suspenseful and always surprising romp through 1911 Egypt with Amelia and her equally indomitable family, the Emersons, The Falcon at the Portal immerses us in a fascinating world of antiquity and majesty, and plunges us into a mystery as perilous as it is puzzling. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests, let us all "raise a toast to the incomparable Amelia Peabody." |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |