A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia P... read full description
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Jun 15, 2007
Shala
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Again, using this book as a stand-in for the entire series of Amelia Peabody mysteries. Elizabeth Peters was my companion of choice in 2005-2006 for airplane trips. If you want to read a lot of brain candy while pretending you're doing something literary, read the Amelia Peabody mysteries in the order in which Peters wrote them. Peters develops a lot as a writer over the course of writing these novels, and it's fascinating to watch her gain mastery over the craft. The first books can be grim rea
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Aug 06, 2011
Elaine
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Title: The Golden One.
Author: Elizabeth Peters.
Genre: Mystery, Action/Adventure, Historical Fiction, War Thriller, Egyptology, Romance, Humorous, Sequel.
Plot: Amelia Peabody Emerson and her husband Radcliff Emerson bring in the new year of 1917 on board ship heading for Egypt at the start of a prolonged stay in that country. It’s the beginning of another excavation season and Emerson is keen to get back to work. Also in their party are the Emerson’s grown son More...
Author: Elizabeth Peters.
Genre: Mystery, Action/Adventure, Historical Fiction, War Thriller, Egyptology, Romance, Humorous, Sequel.
Plot: Amelia Peabody Emerson and her husband Radcliff Emerson bring in the new year of 1917 on board ship heading for Egypt at the start of a prolonged stay in that country. It’s the beginning of another excavation season and Emerson is keen to get back to work. Also in their party are the Emerson’s grown son More...
Mar 02, 2009
Amanda
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Mar 18, 2009
Kristi
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A while ago, I realised that I read this series, and most mystery serieses these days, as novels of setting and character, not as puzzles. Which was good, because this book was wonderful as a chance to spend more time with Amelia Peabody, family and friends. But as mystery, it left something to be desired. A few extremely incompetent and not at all mysterious tomb robbers, a couple of murders at the beginning that were immediately explained and that no-one really cared about anyways, and a co
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Jul 26, 2010
Kaye
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Oct 27, 2009
Beth
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This is the first Peters I'd read, and it hooked me very early on. Her books turn out to be like satisfying, multicourse meals. They have complex plots and subplots. The historical detail is fantastic. The characters are generally not stereotypes or even archetypes. My only quibble is that Fatima, the Egyptian housekeeper, has almost no role to play except to be worried, exclaim a lot, and push food on people. She's a fairly boring stereotype of a woman, and Peters has disappointed me in that sh
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Sep 18, 2010
Bonnie
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I generally like to get books in this series in audiobook format because Barbara Rosenblatt is such a great reader, but this one isn't available from the library in that format, so I read it. Still great and I imagined the characters talking like the reader. Emerson and Amelia and family find indications that a tomb has been found by the local tomb robbers and they and their friend Cyrus Vandergelt try to find it before any more of its treasures are stolen. Meanwhile Ramses is recruited to go
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Aug 19, 2011
Ann
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The Great War and the Great Game continue. This time the entire Emerson clan follows Ramses on his assignment to Gaza.
Meanwhile, they have hired a very competent, eager young, Egyptian girl, and her lazy, incompetent brother, who may be involved in the discovery and pilfering of a very important tomb. They are also having to deal with an obnoxious American famnily who seems bent on openly dealing in stolen antiquities.
All in all, it's just anoher season in Egypt for the More...
Meanwhile, they have hired a very competent, eager young, Egyptian girl, and her lazy, incompetent brother, who may be involved in the discovery and pilfering of a very important tomb. They are also having to deal with an obnoxious American famnily who seems bent on openly dealing in stolen antiquities.
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Oct 16, 2011
Bridget
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The fourteenth Amelia Peabody mystery (in order of publication) is set in 1917, a year after the events of Lord of the Silent. World War I continues, and the Emersons have decided to make their stay in Egypt indefinite to avoid the wartime risks of the journey to and from England. They plan to live and excavate in Luxor, one of their favorite sites in Egypt. Accompanying them are their butler, Gargery, and Percy's illegitimate daughter (whom the Emersons have taken in) Sennia, now 7 years old
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May 07, 2011
Rach
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There are lots of good things in this book. I love anytime we get to spend with Sethos, and the more he features in these books, the more we get to know and like him, just as Amelia, Emerson, and the rest of the family do. I'm also so glad that Bertie is thriving as an archeologist, and happy for Cyrus that he finally has his big find. The family's adventure to Gaza was quite thrilling, and I enjoyed that action, despite the fact that this war business is generally wearing on me. I also loved w
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Sep 08, 2011
Maura
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not sure i'm going to finish... this whole family is annoying -- I had hoped that since it was later in the series, either the characterization of Amelia and Emerson would have changed slightly, or having the grown kids around would provide balance. so far, not so much. it's a pity since i have many friends who *love* this series; I wish I could too.
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Aug 15, 2010
Morgan
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A new year, 1917 is dawning and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. Soon an even more disturbing outrage concerns the intrepid clan of archaeologists: the freshly and savagely slain corpse of a thief defiling the ancient burial site.
Aug 15, 2011
Susan
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Barbara Rosenblat delightfully interprets Amelia Peabody and her family/retinue of characters and their archeological and other adventures in Egypt in this audiobook. Her reading brings out all the subtle and not so subtle humor of this series and is why I'm rating this so highly, even though they've left out some of the good funny parts in this abridgment.
Sep 18, 2009
Karen
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I've read this entire series, along with all the books she wrote as Barbara Michaels, and have loved them all. The early books are of their time (the 70s) and the plots are all pretty similar, but it's been great to watch the family develop and grow in "real time" over decades. I look forward to an annual visit to the Valley of the Kings.
Jan 24, 2011
Marita
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Egypt 1917. Plot very much like her other ones. I especially enjoyed the uplifting warm family relationships and the way they interact even if Amelia was wrong about one of her 'adoptees' from a previous book. This was a change actually since they usually take on native women with open arms...It is fun to go to Egypt with the Emersons.
Feb 01, 2010
Heidi
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I read the first book in this series when I was 14-15 (when it first came out). I have been obsessed with these books ever since, what treasures! I have just listened to this on cd with my husband, who has never read the series, and seeing him smile and laugh out loud throughout the story was an added treat. Three cheers for Amelia!
Mar 02, 2009
Terri
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In this book you get 2 adventures in one! Ramses (and family, of course!) head off to Gaza to save the day during WWI and the family (with help of Cyrus Vandergelt) also manage to have adventures in archaeology.
Every Amelia Peabody book is full of fun, wit, and just a bit of mystery. I never try to figure out "who did it". I just enjoy watching Amelia and the rest figure it out as they go.
Every Amelia Peabody book is full of fun, wit, and just a bit of mystery. I never try to figure out "who did it". I just enjoy watching Amelia and the rest figure it out as they go.
Aug 03, 2011
KarenF
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Nothing particularly new or earth-shattering but I'm not a glommer so I'm OK with a formula when that formula works for me. Reading an Amelia Peabody book is like meeting with old friends. If your friends are spies and dashing archeologists in the Egyptian desert circa WWI. There are nefarious tomb robbers, potential double agents and ill-mannered young men all of whom (of course) get their Peabody-Emerson (and Vandergelt) comeuppance. As you can tell, I love spending time with these charact
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Dec 20, 2010
Kathy
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The family is increasing which bodes ill for everyone's peaceful future although a tremendous find is awaiting them under the Egyptian desert. Ramses is under siege by military intelligence to perform just one more job for them---a rescue of their uncle. And Nefret harbors a secret of her own.
Dec 24, 2009
Lindsey
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The Golden One is up in the list of my top favorite Elizabeth Peters books. Primarily because of the undercover work...
Favorite quote: He would be writing a book, Ramses thought. One of those books that will never be finished, because the author keeps finding additional material.
Favorite quote: He would be writing a book, Ramses thought. One of those books that will never be finished, because the author keeps finding additional material.
Nov 09, 2009
Ellen
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My mystery-book group's subject for November was Elizabeth Peters books. I've read several of her other Amelia Peabody stories, and enjoyed them at first. But I didn't finish whatever one I was reading last year, and in this one I lost interest midway through. Finished it anyway.
Jun 01, 2011
Carrie
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The characters in Elizabeth Peters books are just wonderful. Each character has a tenacious and colorful personality which adds true vigor & vitality to each & every story by this author. LOVE THEM. If you like Indiana Jones, you will LOVE these books.
Mar 19, 2008
Lisa
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As you can see, I don't like the Amelia Peabody ones nearly as much as all the rest of Peters' novels. Or the follow-ups concerning her whole extended family. I think Peters makes a mistake to drift from the short novels she is good at to lengthy, detail laden novels of one family over and over again. I wish she had spent the time writing other novels instead... the ones with Vicky Bliss, Jacqueline Kirby, or various other heroines. :( Just my personal preference of course. She and Barbara Micha
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Apr 24, 2009
Libbey
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The series is ok; it takes a while to get into it. Once you do you end up liking nosy Amelia Peabody, her loud husband, and their (mis)adventures. The writing style and "mystery" is something to be desired.
Feb 04, 2009
Cheri
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I believe this book has the distinction of being the only Amelia Peabody mystery that ends with a note of foreboding preparing the reader for the next book in the series. The only Amelia "cliffhanger" that doesn't actually involve a cliff.
Jun 19, 2011
Jamie
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3.5 stars. Another entertaining Amelia Peabody novel, although the plot is a slightly awkward mix of murder mystery and spy adventure.
It's 1916 and the Emersons are back in Egypt to stay for a while, since ocean travel is growing more dangerous due to German submarine attacks. The usual murder mystery interrupts their archaeological digging, plus the British authorities continue to pursue a reluctant Ramses, trying to engage him yet again in the Great Game.
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It's 1916 and the Emersons are back in Egypt to stay for a while, since ocean travel is growing more dangerous due to German submarine attacks. The usual murder mystery interrupts their archaeological digging, plus the British authorities continue to pursue a reluctant Ramses, trying to engage him yet again in the Great Game.
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Apr 28, 2011
Pat
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This is the culmination of Peters' Amelia Peabody series. Sadly, she might be retiring. But what better way to put the series to bed than by embroiling Amelia, et al., in a mystery surrounding the discovery of King Tut's tomb?
Aug 09, 2011
Rickyjez
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Reminds me of Agatha Christie novels. Light hearted mysteries, although with more focus on archaeology (Christie's novels sometimes include fictional accounts of her real life hubby's fieldwork). Amelia Peabody mysteries are my 'escape from stress' books.
Feb 19, 2011
Sherry
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She was "The Golden One, Horos, Goddess of Nuturing, of Fragrance". I love this as the theme for the book. Note the depiction of Horos on the cover.
Oct 31, 2009
Lynda
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The Emersons are like old and valued friends. When I see a new book, I smile because I know I will enjoy it. They never disappoint.
