The Hippopotamus Pool: [vol. 8] (Amelia Peabody) - Hardcover

A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are intrigued. The mysterious disappearance of the guide leads the Peabody-Emersons to Thebes where they become embroiled with murder, kidnap, grave robbing and ancient curses.

Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels, and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor, at the Malice Domestic convention. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.