Peters, Elizabeth

Crocodile on the Sandbank

New York: Armchair Detective Library, 1990.
First Armchair Detective Library Edition, Limited Edition of 26 Copies. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt decorated burgundy cloth with etching of Peters pasted-on front board, iv, 262pp. Item #900269
ISBN: 0922890382

"N" of a limited edition of 26 lettered copies. Signed by the author on half-title. Victorian amateur sleuth Amelia Peabody solves her first mystery on Egyptian sand. In this debut, a mummy is unearthed, a nefarious plot is unraveled, and Amelia meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes and the archaeologically-inclined Emerson brothers, all of whom will feature prominently in novels to come.

As new in slip-case.

Price: $750.00