Lord of the Silent - Brossura

Peters, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0066209617 ISBN 13: 9780066209616

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2001

Riassunto

In 1915 Cairo, Eygptologist Amelia Peabody and her archaeologist husband brave German submarines and warring Senussi to continue their search for ancient artifacts, until they stumble upon a much-too-recent corpse and must risk everything to find the killer. 12,500 first printing. (Mystery)

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L'autore:

Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. She was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody -- Grandmaster Elizabeth Peter's indomitable archaeologist-sleuth -- once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and spectors of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.

With son Ramses, his wife, Nefret, and a few unwelcome additions in tow, the elder Peabody-Emersons embark on a dangerous sea voyage to Alexandria, ultimately ending up in Cairo for their annual excavations.  But in this autumn of 1915 the exotic, alluring city is not what it used to be.  Cairo has been transformed into an armed camp teeming with the enemy agents, and shockingly bold tomb robbers are brazenly desecratingg the ancient sites.

Yet there is an even darker danger in store for the Emersons.  Can it be that one of Amelia's oldest and most dangerous adversaries will intervene to alter the family's destiny? Tantalizing clues suggest that this may be so and point toward an archaeological discovery of unparalleled importance -- and the resurrection of a voice that has been silent for millenia.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0066209617
• ISBN 13: 9780066209616
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704