The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Amelia Peabody Mysteries: Book #6
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
- Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Description
Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters brings back nineteenth-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in this delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and her precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son’s new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on papyrus and a cryptic map had been delivered to Blacktower, awakening his hope that the couple was still alive.
Neither Amelia nor Emerson believes the message is authentic, but the treasure map proves an irresistible temptation. Now, deep in Nubia’s vast wasteland, they discover too late how much treachery is afoot (and on camelback), and survival depends on Amelia’s solving a mystery as old as ancient Egypt and as timeless as greed and revenge.
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The Amelia Peabody Mysteries Series

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Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Curse of the Pharaohs
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Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Mummy Case
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Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
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Lion in the Valley
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Deeds of the Disturber
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
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When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare nineteenth-Dynasty mummy case, a look of terror frozen on his face, panic ensues. No one doubts that the guard’s untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that tart-tongued Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody,... Read more »
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The Last Camel Died at Noon
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters brings back nineteenth-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in this delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and her precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched... Read more »
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