It’s a sad fact, but it’s a true one: the last camel just dropped dead, leaving Amelia, Emerson and Ramses to slowly die of dehydration or exposure (whichever will kill them first) under the desert sun in the winter of 1897. But then again, they have only themselves to blame for giving up a perfectly decent dig site to chase after some fool of an English aristocrat looking for his uncle and his uncle’s young bride, who disappeared into the desert […]
“If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.”
The Last Camel Died At Noon: An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters