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Author
Series
Poirot volume 15
Language
English
Description
The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
728 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season. Amidst a growing tangle of disguises...
Author
Series
Out from Egypt volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
505 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a cruel mistress. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. Will she turn back, or surrender her future to Yahweh?