Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
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Book Reviews of Crocodile on the Sandbank
Book Review: Utterly charming!
Summary: 4 Stars
Fans of historical mysteries and those fascinated with Egyptology will love Crocodile. I wish I had discovered the series sooner. I fell in love with Walter Emerson and the fair Evelyn. Although the "bad guy" is rather obvious, one doesn't mind since the conclusion is delivered with wit and twist.
Also recommended: Aaron Elkins' GIDEON OLIVER series starting with Fellowship of Fear. And most wholeheartedly: Candace Robb's OWEN ARCHER series starting with THE APOTHECARY ROSE.
Book Review: Kick starting my most favorite series
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first read this book I fell in love with the charactors. I had no idea how much pleasure they would bring me for years into the future! Amelia is hysterical, the romance couldn't get any better, the fun never stops.
I highly recommend this book and all in the series. Thank you Elizabeth Peters for adding such enjoyment to my life!
Book Review: Entertaining!
Summary: 4 Stars
Someone in one of my bookclubs recommended reading Elizabeth Peters' series on Amelia Peabody and her mysteries. She also recommended that I read them in order so it won't be confusing. So I bought this book and several more and became instantly hooked on the series!
This book is the introduction to Amelia Peabody, a wealthy heiress who traveled to Eygpt after her father died to see for her own eyes the wonders there. She rescued Evelyn, a young woman in dire straits. Once they made it there and before they journeyed down the Nile, they met the Emerson brothers. Then their journey became very interesting ~~ there seem to be a mummy trying to scare them off the evacuation site or maybe it was a kidnapping plot. But no one was sure just who the victim was ...
This is a great beginning to the Peabody series ~~ it's fun and entertaining with that famous dry British wit. It's clean fun too ~~ not bloody or gory like a lot of today's mystery novels are.
Once you read this book, you'll be hooked onto her series!
4-28-05
Book Review: One of my Favorite Books
Summary: 5 Stars
In this novel, the first of a series, adventureous Amelia Peabody decides to travel the world after inheriting a nice sum of money at the death of her father. Amelia hires Evelyn Forbes, whom she found fainting in the streets of Rome, as a companion. Evelyn, a beautiful gentlewoman, was abandoned by her lover, Alberto and forever "ruined".
The two women head to Eygpt and being to sail up the Nile. They soon meet the Emerson brothers, sweet Walter and hot-tempered, handsome Radcliffe. Walter imediately becomes smitten with Evelyn and she with him. Radcliffe imediately dislikes Amelia seeing her as "the rampageous British female at her clumsiest and most arrogant". Amelia returns the sentiment seeing Mr. Emerson as "the lordly British male at his loudest and most bad-mannered".
Soon after meeting the Emersons, Evelyn's lover reappears, wanting her back. Evelyn's cousin, Lord Lucas Ellesmere, also appears, begging Evelyn to marry him.
After declining both men's offers, strange events, including a walking mummy, occur and all seemed to be aimed at Evelyn. The two women soon ally themselves with the Emerson brothers.
Book Review: For the Egyptophile
Summary: 5 Stars
The primary requirement of the fiction writer is to take the reader away and convince him or her that the new setting has a certain reality. This is true of every genre, sci-fi, western, mystery, romance.... Elizabeth Peters does an absolutely remarkable job of that in this novel. Granted, I have a positive predisposition for books set along the Nile; nonetheless this one is outstanding.
The plot and mystery might be described as so-so, but the characters and the ambience of Egyption archaeology in Victorian times are perfect. The strange romance between Peabody and Emerson is certainly not of the standard variety. The tombs, the sand, the pyramids, the terrace at Shepheard's...they are enough to carry one away.
I've now read the first four in this Amelia Peabody series and so far have found them all to be most convincing.