The Hippopotamus Pool Author:Elizabeth Peters (no back cover description -- this is from the front flap.) — What could be more intriguing to Amelia Peabody and her irresistible, irascible husband, Emerson("The Father of Curses", than meeting a masked stranger who offers to show them an Egyptian queen's lost tomb? The mysterious disappearrance of that midnight visitor before he can disclose ... more »the secret!« less