The Hippopotamus Pool
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Average rating3.9
A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he tells his secret, the husband-and-wife team sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped-and hampered-by their teenage son, Ramses, and beautiful ward, Nefret. But before the sands of time shift very far, all will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. And the Hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type-a nefarious, overweight art dealer who may become her next archenemy!
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19 primary books#8 in Amelia Peabody
Amelia Peabody is a 19-book series with 19 primary works first released in 1975 with contributions by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess.
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Like the previous book in this series, this one is more gripping than amusing. But this time everyone is assembled in Egypt: Ramses and Nefret are present, and Walter and Evelyn too. There is some serious archæology: a fascinating new tomb is discovered. But there are also menacing criminals to be dealt with.
A new character is introduced, the boy David.
I think this is one of the better books in the series, but I still hesitate to give it four stars. Three and a half, perhaps...
Another enjoyable installment of the Amelia Peabody series. These books should be read in order, for anyone who would dream of starting at the eighth book in a series. Otherwise the characters and plots that carry over from the last books are lost and I think anyone would end up hopelessly confused.
I enjoyed the new and evolving characters in this one, like Sir Edward and Nefret, and the fact that she brought back Walter and Evelyn. I also enjoyed the usual things—learning about Egyptology, chuckling at the banter, getting lost in the adventure of it all. This one didn't have as exciting a plot as some of the others but I still enjoyed it.
