The Jackal's Head

by Elizabeth Peters

Ebook, 1968

Status

Available

Call number

Fic Mystery PetersEz

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!Po, Fic, Mystery, __make_cover, _import200202

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Collection

ebooks

Publication

HarperCollins

Description

Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. HTML: Digging up a buried past could lead to a premature death, for there is a dangerous secret that is centuries old�??as old as the treasure of Nefertiti. Althea Tomlinson comes back to Egypt as just another tourist, showing the country to a spoiled seventeen-year-old. That's what she tells herself, anyway. The truth is more complex�??and dangerous. Ten years ago, something that happened in this desert land brought about her father's ruin and subsequent death�??and Althea intends to clear her disgraced parent's name and finally lay a dark past to rest. But there are some mysteries best left buried in the shifting sands, and a devoted daughter's search for answers is stirring up forgotten memories almost too painful to endure that propel her onward among ancient tombs, legendary treasures, miraculous discoveries�??and ever-closer to her own threatene… (more)

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LibraryThing member tjsjohanna
I thought I had read all of Elizabeth Peters' books, but happily, I found one that is new to me! Imagine Amelia Peabody in modern setting, and you have a hint of this book. The excitement of finding new and untouched burial sites, the romantic connection that reminds one of Emerson - it's a very
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 enjoyable book. Good mystery.
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LibraryThing member trinityM82
Not the best Peter's mystery - too much Electra complex. Still, it is set in Egypt and the heroine is smart - an archeologist (it's set sometime in the mid-seventies, but I think this may have been a for-runner for Amelia - the heroines are much the same except for this one is a bit of a nut job
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 over the death of her father, whose innocence of a crime she is attempting to prove by working with his old partner, who she subsequently falls in love with, though much like Emerson and Amelia they fight like cats and dogs throughout much of the narrative.
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LibraryThing member susanamper
Elizabeth Peter's first book published in 1968 shows the promise she will fulfill in the Amelia Peabody series. Althea Thomlinson comes back to Egypt 10 year after she left at the age of 17. She hopes to clear her father's name. He was disgraced for trying to sell fake antiquities--and died soon
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 after in a crash. Dr. John McIntire is head of the Luxor Institute, and he is a template for Emerson in the Amelia Peabody series. There is a question as to whether the tomb of Nefertiti might be in the valley of the kings. And Althea and John play cat and mouse with each other and some killers.
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LibraryThing member anglophile65
2.5 stars. There was way too much description that I could not follow - I found myself skimming over sections.
LibraryThing member kmartin802
This romantic suspense title was a reread for me. I likely read this one more than 40 years ago. Since I saw it as an Audible Plus title, I decided to listen to it this time.

Althea Tomlinson grew up in Egypt where her father was an archaeologist. She left when she was fifteen and her father died in
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 an accident shortly afterwards. But when a letter comes from an Egyptian who worked with her father, she feels she needs to go back and find some answers and get some closure.

Not having the funds to travel on her own, she eagerly takes the job of chaperoning a spoiled teenager who is on her way to Egypt to rendezvous with her father who is a wealthy collector of antiquities. Her attempts to remain incognito are ruined when she meets a couple of her father's colleagues - men she blames for her father's disgrace - and finds herself moving in with them after an attack.

There is a hidden tomb, antiquities thieves, and a growing romance. The story was told through Tommy's voice and viewpoint. I was reminded a lot of the author's Amelia Peabody series but mainly I think because of the character of one of the archaeologists. Of course the setting is the same though this is a contemporary story rather than historical fiction.

It was an entertaining story to listen to. It was also a pleasure to revisit the story after such a long time. I enjoyed it this time too.
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Original publication date

1968

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½ (89 ratings; 3.6)

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