Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1) in Reading with Style

May 18, 2022 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-classics

Crocodile on the Sandbank was a light, enjoyable read. I loved the intersection of cozy mystery and Egyptology - à la Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. At first, I found the protagonist Amelia Peabody to be annoyingly a little too full of herself; but either I got used to her personality, or she mellowed out as circumstances changed. But the story was great, and I was astonished to find that the ending caught me totally by surprise (a ++ in any mystery novel). I do intend to continue in the s ...more

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Jul 11, 2013 Wendy rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, girls-rock-the-boys, mystery-suspense, historical-fiction

Having inherited a fortune, Ms. Amelia Peabody eschews the likely drudgery of marriage and sets off for Egypt instead. She takes a ruined ingenue under her wing as a traveling companion, then, enamored by the pyramids and bat-infested tombs, falls in with an archaeological expedition. However, something strange is emerging from the tombs at night...

This was a fun little summer mystery set at an Egyptian archaeological dig during Victorian times. While the mystery itself is rather predictable, th ...more

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Aug 07, 2011 Connie G rated it liked it

Shelves: africa, mystery, series, egypt

Amelia Peabody, a strong-willed independent English woman, planned a trip to Egypt in the 1880s to enjoy an inheritance. In a stop in Rome, she rescued the abandoned Evelyn Forbes and took her as a companion to Egypt. While exploring the tombs along the Nile, the two women meet the Emerson brothers who are excavating a site. They get involved in a mystery involving a mummy that disappeared from a tomb, then appeared in their camp at night. Amelia has more adventure than she was planning on her E ...more

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Jul 31, 2017 GONZA rated it liked it

Shelves: ebk

OHHHHH I have a new series with a strong heroine and now I know that 19 more books are waiting for me before the end - because this series ended a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't have asked for more two days before my holidays....

Meraviglioso, ho scoperto questa nuova serie con un'eroina tostissima e ora vivo sapendo che ci sono altri 19 libri prima della fine, anche perché questa é una serie finita due settimane fa :) non avrei potuto chiedere di meglio a due giorni dalle ferie.... ...more

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Aug 05, 2013 Kate S rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013

This was a mystery story set in the late 19th Century, mostly in Egypt. It was OK, I am not in a hurry to read any more in this series, but if the situation arises, I could continue it.

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