Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense

Description: In Egypt for the 1911 archaeological season, Amelia Peabody and her family are not anticipating trouble, but it finds them nonetheless. Their young friend David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and it's up to the Emersons to expose the real culprit. Amelia brings her estimable powers of deduction to bear, but she might not survive long enough to unravel more than one perplexing puzzlebecause suddenly someone is shooting bullets in her direction!

Brief description:

Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.

Review Quotes:

"Peters draws all the elements together with trademark wit and a new note of poignancy...raise a toast to the incomparable Amelia Peabody." - Cleveland Plain Dealer

"[A] jewel of a series." - New York Times Book Review

Praise for The Falcon at the Portal: "Such a treasure that I may just have to excavate my way back through the entire Peabody oeuvre." - Washington Post

Praise for Elizabeth Peters: "Peters's wily cast of characters keeps the reader coming back for more." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Amelia Peabody, the bossy archaeologist in Elizabeth Peters's romantic adventures set in Egypt at the end of the last century, makes a perfect companion for a cruise up the Nile." - New York Times