A river in the sky / Elizabeth Peters.
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TextPublication details: London : Constable, 2010Description: 304 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781849012881 (hbk.); 1849012881 (hbk.)Subject(s): Peabody, Amelia (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Women Egyptologists -- Fiction | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Jerusalem -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories. DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: CRIME & MYSTERY. It's 1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder challenge: Palestine, a province of the crumbling, corrupt Ottoman Empire and the Holy Land of three religions. Hearing that Morley, an English adventurer, has raised money to mount an expedition to search for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem, Emerson and Amelia are persuaded to go after him in order to prevent a catastrophically inept excavation and the possibility of armed protest by the infuriated members of all three religions who view the Dome of the Rock as sacred.
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"An Amelia Peabody murder mystery."
CRIME & MYSTERY. It's 1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder challenge: Palestine, a province of the crumbling, corrupt Ottoman Empire and the Holy Land of three religions. Hearing that Morley, an English adventurer, has raised money to mount an expedition to search for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem, Emerson and Amelia are persuaded to go after him in order to prevent a catastrophically inept excavation and the possibility of armed protest by the infuriated members of all three religions who view the Dome of the Rock as sacred.
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