The Ape Who Guards the Balance: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
by Peters, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0380976579
- ISBN 13
- 9780380976577
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight lean to spine. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Edition with full number line. . 376 pages. An Amelia Peabody Mystery, No. 10. The prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt seem fairly dull to Amelia Peabody. Despite her adored husband's brilliant reputation in his field, his dashing-yet-less-than-diplomatic behavior has Professor Radcliffe Emerson ignominiously demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of the Kings - mere leftovers, really. All the Peabody Emersons profess stiff upper lips and intend to make the best of a bad situation, but this year the legendary land of the pharaohs will yield more than priceless artifacts for the Emerson expedition. For the desert guards even deeper mysteries that are wrapped in greed--and sealed by murder. In a seedy section of Cairo, the youngest members of the expedition purchase a mint-condition papyrus of the famed Book of the Dead, the collection of magical spells and prayers designed to ward off the perils of the underworld and lead the deceased into everlasting life. But for as long as there have been graves, there have also been grave robbers - as well as those who believe tomb violators risk the wrath of gods like Thoth, the little baboon who protects the scales used to weigh such precious commodities as hearts and souls .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 601407
- Title
- The Ape Who Guards the Balance: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
- Author
- Peters, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0380976579
- ISBN 13
- 9780380976577
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, WOMEN SLEUTHS, AMELIA PEABODY (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Women Sleuths;
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