The Hippopotamus Pool Author:Elizabeth Peters This is the eighth archaeological adventure of nineteenth-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. What could be more intriguing to Amelia and her irresistible husband, Emerson ("The Father of Curses"), than meeting a masked stranger who offers to show them an Egyptian queen's lost tomb? The mysterious disappearance of that midnight visitor before ... more »he can disclose the secret!« less