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Who does the Master Criminal impersonate in The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog: An Amelia Peabody Mystery?
Elizabeth Peters
a. Emerson
b. Howard Carter
c. Abdullah
d. Cyrus Vandergelt
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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: 3.95 | 34,730 ratings | 1,974 reviews | 47 distinct works | 141 fans

	Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.08 — 2,887 ratings — published 1975 37 editions	my rating:
	The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 3.99 — 1,676 ratings — published 1981 18 editions	my rating:
	The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.11 — 1,518 ratings — published 1991 18 editions	my rating:
	The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.08 — 1,454 ratings — published 1992 14 editions	my rating:
	The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 3.95 — 1,492 ratings — published 1985 27 editions	my rating:
	Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.08 — 1,438 ratings — published 1986 22 editions	my rating:
	The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, #5) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.02 — 1,417 ratings — published 1988 16 editions	my rating:
	The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.03 — 1,376 ratings — published 1996 10 editions	my rating:
	The Falcon at the Portal (Amelia Peabody, #11) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.09 — 1,320 ratings — published 1999 17 editions	my rating:
	He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12) by Elizabeth Peters avg rating 4.18 — 1,262 ratings — published 2000 15 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Elizabeth Peters

"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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