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The Hippopotamus Pool

The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 8

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The Hippopotamus Pool

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 Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Witty Middle East Ancient Egypt

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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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