A review by cheryl6of8
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters

3.0

3.5 stars -- I liked the tongue-in-cheek aspect of it, in that the running gag through the whole story is Peabody's fascination with H. Rider Haggard's book King Solomon's Mines and this is written in the same style with a similar storyline. I have not read this series in any particular order, so it was kind of fun to see the first meeting between the Emersons and Nefret, their adopted daughter. There was a lot of intrigue in the book -- who can you trust and who can you not trust, shifting loyalties, etc -- as opposed to an actual mystery. But it was a grand adventure, if a trifle long and wordy (which is exactly what I thought about King Solomon's Mines when I read it several years ago).