Crocodile on the Sandbank

The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 1

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.

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Absolute Perfection!!

This is the beginning of something very special! The performance introduces us to some really fantastic characters, and one is encouraged to continue on with the story to the end. Just the right mix of historical accuracy with less normative gender stereotypes! A classic!!

Sappy but romantic easy read.

Great book. It is a quick book to listen to and is charmy and comedic.

Peters and Rosenblat, a winning duo

I've loved listening to this series since I was a teenager. Fun, hilarious mysteries, made even more delightful by Barbara Rosenblat's fine narration.

Amelia Hits the Spot

I love the "Amelia Peabody" books. She is independent, strong spirited and strong willed. I love her umbrella and her adventurous spirit. I highly recommend giving this series "a go." I doubt that you will be disappointed.

I have discovered Miss Amelia Peabody!

Egypt is in my heart: they say if you once drank from the Nile, the desire to return to its banks will haunt you forever. I spent a couple of extremely short years in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, with weekend trips out to deserts and sea banks, with numerous 10-15 day long travels all over this land of the mysteries and a thousand cats...

I had a wonderful company and all the possible comforts to endure into such travels, including, oh my, that was a TOTAL luxury! - a shower bag, which you secure on top of your Jeep and it gets so pleasantly hot by the end of the day that you can take your evening shower in much comfort and meet the coolness of the night by the fire, all freshened up :)

Miss Amelia Peabody and her friends did not have such arrangements. They were traveling on donkeys, bringing some comforting things and clothes from the dahabea (boat) to the caves in the Amarna desert, where they soon encountered love and hate, betrayal and some scary... o, I shall stop! It is nearly impossible to tell you about the book without giving up the clever twists and turns of the events!

I will tell you this much: I HATE doing home chores, but listening to this audio book, read BRILLIANTLY by funny, sarcastic, charmingly witty Barbara Rosenblat, I kept on cleaning and washing and folding clothes and even considered making dumplings, for I needed to justify listening to this lovely book to the very end! It made me laugh and brought me quite a lot of nostalgia, too.

The first in the Amelia Peabody series, Crocodile on the Sandbank is written in 1975 and covers the 1884–85 years. I learned that the series go on for another 19 (!!) books with the last one published as recently as in April 2010! "Elizabeth Peters" is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, born in 1927, a PhD in Egyptology (so you can rely on the abundance of facts she presents you with in her books!!)

Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya

The beginning of the best series in mystery

Amelia Peabody and Her husband famed Egyptologist Emerson begin their adventures here. Elizabeth Peters) writes 19 novels under this pseudonym Each is more humorous and complicated than the last. Peters has. PhD from the University of Chicago and her. Scholarship is reflected in each book without being pedantic. There are no crocodiles involved but there is a mummy and a dig and the beginning of my favorite mystery series

Just For Fun!

This book was just so much fun to listen to. I rarely give 5 stars for a purely recreational book--I want something more profound for that designation. But I made an exception here for this one. I simply enjoyed it that much even though this is not my favored genre. It made me laugh, and the ending was satisfying if predictable.

I really liked Amelia even though I'm quite sure this character was unrealistic for an Englishwoman of the 1880s. I don't think the story or the characters were meant to be taken seriously or literally, so I didn't

I'll probably read the next in the series and see where Amelia takes me. Just for fun. When I am looking for something light that will entertain and distract. Crocodile on the Sandbank was just what I needed this week.

Miss Marple in late 19th century

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I loved the book! The story is developing nicely and you are led to false beliefs so that you are not able to predict the outcome of the story.
I write Miss Marple in the late 19th century since the character of Miss Peabody seems to be quite alike in matters of unorthodox thinking and her nosiness even if she is a just at her early thirties.
And over all I very much liked the performance of Barbara Rosenblat. Actually it was her performance with led me to buy the audiobook without having read a wrap-up of the store. Her voice and accent fitted my idea of an unusally confident and open-minded lady perfectly and by the time I had finished listening to the sample I was already addicted to the story.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Miss Amelia Peabody since I love strong female characters :-)

Well I also loved Radcliffe Emerson with his stubborn and provocative air...

Utterly enjoyable

While this mystery definitely suffers from a predictable conclusion, that’s the only element that dates it and keeps me from giving a higher rating. Otherwise, the Victorian period with its indomitable protagonist has held up nicely, and I already have the next of the series on my cart.

Beginning the series

I have read some of Elizabeth Oeters books in this series and wanted to go to the beginning. Now I have and am pleased that I did. The narrator, Barbara Rosenblat is the right person to narrate ! Love this series.