The Snake, The Crocodile, and The Dog – Elizabeth Peters
When we last saw Amelia Peabody at the end of “The Last Camel Died at Noon” by Elizabeth Peters, she was escaping imprisonment with her husband Emerson and their son Ramses. They had been held against their will in the fabled Lost Oasis, not quite so fabled any more, now that they had found it. They brought back with them a peculiar souvenir in the form of a beautiful thirteen-year-old girl named Nefret, who had been raised to believe that she was the High Priestess of Isis, when in actuality she was English and the daughter of the persons Amelia … Continue reading