Crocodile on the sandbank

Description:

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

subjects: Fiction,  Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character),  Women archaeologists,  Archaeologists' spouses,  Mystery,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Peabody, amelia (fictitious character), fiction,  Egypt, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Women archaeologists, fiction,  Fiction in English,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction, historical, general,  Women detectives

Places: Egypt