The Serpent on the Crown - Elizabeth Peters [154]
“Just as you say, my dear.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am indebted, as so often before, to my official and unofficial editors—Jennifer Brehl of Morrow, Kristen Whitbread of MPM Manor, Dennis Forbes of KMT, and George B. Johnson. It is impossible for mere mortals, even those as talented as the abovementioned, to attain perfection; but thanks to them, I believe I’ve managed to eliminate the most egregious of the little lapses that marked the first draft. Any remaining goofs are my responsibility, not theirs. I can’t imagine what I would do without them.
Informed readers will spot various Egyptological jokes. Dennis Forbes is responsible for what I consider the most entertaining of these: the unexpected appearance of a certain golden statuette.
The translation of Thutmose III’s Poetical Stela is based on that of Miriam Lichtheim in her indispensable Ancient Egyptian Literature.
About the Author
ELIZABETH PETERS was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.
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ALSO BY ELIZABETH PETERS
Guardian of the Horizon*
Children of the Storm*
The Golden One*
Lord of the Silent*
He Shall Thunder in the Sky*
The Falcon at the Portal*
The Ape Who Guards the Balance*
Seeing a Large Cat*
The Hippopotamus Pool*
Night Train to Memphis
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog*
The Last Camel Died at Noon*
Naked Once More
The Deeds of the Disturber*
Trojan Gold
Lion in the Valley*
The Mummy Case*
Die for Love
Silhouette in Scarlet
The Copenhagen Connection
The Curse of the Pharaohs*
The Love Talker
Summer of the Dragon
Street of the Five Moons
Devil-May-Care
Legend in Green Velvet
Crocodile on the Sandbank*
The Murders of Richard III
Borrower of the Night
The Seventh Sinner
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
The Dead Sea Cipher
The Camelot Caper
The Jackal’s Head
and
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt
*AMELIA PEABODY MYSTERIES
Credits
Jacket design by Richard L. Aquan
Jacket illustration by Phill Singer
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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EPub Edition © MARCH 2005 ISBN: 9780061807251
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peters, Elizabeth.
The serpent on the crown / Elizabeth Peters.—1st ed.
p. cm.
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