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  • The Hippopotamus Pool

  • The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 8
  • Written by: Elizabeth Peters
  • Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
  • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Written by: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
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The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her loquacious son, Ramses.
©1997 Elizabeth Peters (P)2000 Recorded Books
Historical Suspense
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Great story Still learning to like the reader

I love, the well crafted stories from Elizabeth peters - the narrator of books 7 & 8 for me makes Amelia Peabody sound too snotty (she is better in this book) and Emerson sound too much like a grumpy old man (I’ve always imagined him to be like a Clark Gable type - an old Time movie star that if you’re a fan of old movies, and the stories I think you might agree) - she got him better in this book as well

For a reader, who doesn’t have a defined sense of who these characters are it may not bother them too much - I have actually read all of the books and I am just revisiting them this way - every single story is absolutely worthwhile if you like mysteries and you like archeology

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