Elizabeth Peters

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born

September 29, 1927

gender

female

place of birth

Canton, Illinois, The United States

website

http://www.mpmbooks.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also writes as Barbara Michaels.

Elizabeth Peters was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

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avg rating: 3.96 | 29,260 ratings | 1,711 reviews | 83 distinct works | 101 fans

	Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.10 — 2,338 ratings — published 1975 36 editions	my rating:
	The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.00 — 1,369 ratings — published 1981 18 editions	my rating:
	The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.11 — 1,276 ratings — published 1991 17 editions	my rating:
	The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.09 — 1,220 ratings — published 1992 14 editions	my rating:
	Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.10 — 1,185 ratings — published 1999 18 editions	my rating:
	The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, #5) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.03 — 1,199 ratings — published 1994 14 editions	my rating:
	The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 3.98 — 1,211 ratings — published 1985 21 editions	my rating:
	The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.03 — 1,168 ratings — published 1996 9 editions	my rating:
	The Falcon at the Portal (Amelia Peabody, #11) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.09 — 1,136 ratings — published 1999 13 editions	my rating:
	He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.19 — 1,079 ratings — published 2000 13 editions	my rating:

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"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

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"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."
— Elizabeth Peters

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"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)

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