Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
    Unavailable
    The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
    Unavailable
    The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
    Ebook332 pages4 hours

    The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits

    By Elizabeth Peters

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    An unexpected "gift" has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope with no return address containing a newspaper clipping. Blurred but unmistakable is a photo of a man missing for years and feared dead—Carol's father. It is a summons calling her to a world she has never known, to a place of ancient majesty and blood-chilling terror. Surrounded by towering pyramids on Mexico City's Walk of the Dead, a frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever. But there are dark secrets lurking in the shadows of antiquity, a conspiracy she never imagined . . . and enemies who are determined that Carol Farley will not leave Mexico alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061844911
    Unavailable
    The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
    Author

    Elizabeth Peters

    Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.

    Read more from Elizabeth Peters

    Related to The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Home to ROOST

      Jan 11, 2022

      Home to ROOST
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Coming Out

      May 11, 2020

      The Coming Out
      6 min read

    • Article

      Love And The LAND GIRL

      May 26, 2021

      Love And The LAND GIRL
      9 min read

    • Article

      'Pride' thrusts Jane Austen into 21-century Bushwick

      Oct 22, 2018

      Ibi Zoboi’s rendition of 'Pride and Prejudice' is crackling and full of life, fit for recommendation to both to fellow Janeites and YA readers at large.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Where The Walls Have Ears

      May 22, 2020

      Where The Walls Have Ears
      8 min read

    • Article

      Elsi, The Strange Maid

      Aug 29, 2018

      Elsi, The Strange Maid
      17 min read

    • Article

      The PROMISE

      Aug 18, 2021

      The PROMISE
      9 min read

    • Article

      Coming Soon...

      Dec 15, 2020

      David Tennant stars as Phileas Fogg in this new adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel. Phileas is joined on his voyage by sidekick Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) and journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch).  The cookery show returned earlier this year afte

      1 min read

    • Article

      Wise old Mrs Merrow

      Jul 27, 2020

      Littlesea was everything the description said: a white stone cottage with beams and higgledy-piggledy walls and steps away from a tiny quay in a private bay. It would have been the perfect spot for honeymooners had it not had just the one single bed

      8 min read

    • Article

      Key Lime Pie

      May 19, 2020

      Key Lime Pie
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Turn Of The Tide

      Sep 24, 2020

      The Turn Of The Tide
      4 min read

    • Article

      POISON ON Pink Paper

      Dec 23, 2019

      POISON ON Pink Paper
      8 min read

    • Article

      FRIEND Or Foe?

      Nov 1, 2020

      This is a novel about female friendship. It’s also a murder mystery and a domestic drama. And it’s a story about people who mean well but don’t always do the right thing. All of those elements are wrapped up into a thoughtful book that didn’t keep me

      1 min read

    • Article

      Legacies of Grace

      Mar 21, 2023

      Love is the source of inspiration, energy, creativity, and motivation for living graciously. Theearliest experiences most prominent in my memory were with my grandmother, who, being Ukrainian, was instinctively inclined to generous hospitality with s

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Sojourn to Sous Bois

      Mar 21, 2023

      A Sojourn to Sous Bois
      1 min read

    • Article

      A Nest Of VIPERS

      Jan 25, 2023

      A Nest Of VIPERS
      9 min read

    • Article

      White Christmas

      Sep 19, 2023

      White Christmas
      2 min read

    • Article

      Laugh A Little

      Nov 6, 2020

      Laugh A Little
      3 min read

    • Article

      Estella’s Fate

      May 17, 2023

      Estella’s Fate
      7 min read

    • Article

      Paul Evans

      Dec 22, 2023

      Paul Evans
      4 min read

    • Article

      A tender THREAD

      Dec 22, 2021

      A tender THREAD
      9 min read

    Reviews for The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits

    3/5

    9 ratings6 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Carol, on a break between semesters from an unnamed midwestern university, uses some of an inheritance she and her mother received to visit Mexico. Her drug-addicted boyfriend Danny accompanies her. She intends to visit her estranged father George after receiving anonymous notes about him. Her father lives with a Mexican family. Ivan invites Carol to join one of his tours of Teotihuacan, and she falls in love with the site. Following an incident, she moves out of the hotel and into the house with her father. Danny experiments with more dangerous drugs. Carol soon realizes something related to drug-trafficking is afoot, but she isn't sure whom she can trust. This book first appeared in 1971. The story fits that time and place and probably received an enthusiastic reception by readers. Today's reader will recognize the "preachiness" against using narcotics and respond less favorably. The audio version by Grace Conlin is not recommended. She reads more as a narrator than as someone trying act the parts with enthusiasm, fear, and the other range of emotions characters should be feeling. The voice did not fit Carol. This book differs significantly from other works I read by the author.
    • 3/5
      Interesting, memorable. Very different from Amelia Peabody but well written
    • 2/5
      Not one of her better books and I have read them all now with this one. I found it slow and more dated than many of her older books. Even though Legend in Green Velvet was written years ago it is still fresh and funny.
    • 2/5
      Book summary in one sentence: Hey, kids, don't do drugs.

      Longer summary: college student Carol loads up her mysterious past and deadbeat druggie boyfriend and goes down to Mexico to find her long-lost father. She meets up with him and quickly becomes perplexed and afraid of the mysterious behaviour of the people around her. Throughout, Carol fights constantly to pull her boyfriend away from the diabolical lure of drugs; the conclusion is obvious from the first dire foreshadowing sidenote. Evil portents and dark omens abound; actual mystery and suspense are entirely absent. The main character is weak and the rest of the cast is uniformly unpleasant and uninteresting.

      I found this to be a preaching, proselytizing, depressing, boring, and above all simplistic book. And Elizabeth Peters wrote it. Appalled? I was. In fact, I'm still incredulous. This can't have been written by Peters. It just has to have been written by some malefactor who stole her name. To make it even worse, I listened to this on audio by a reader who spoke in monotone in a voice entirely devoid of emotion or inflection and who kept pronouncing the Spanish in the worst of American accents (for example, Jaime became "HIE-MEE"). She also has a very irregular reading pace and puts pauses in bizarre places; for example, here's how one sentence got read, where '.' is used to indicate pauses between words: "Ivan... was... wearing his favorite.... black shirt............ and slacks". Yes, it is difficult to listen to.

      What surprised me was the strength and strident tone of Peters' anti-drug message. I can't imagine that this sort of book can come from mere creativity; I suspect she suffered a personal tragedy related to drugs. I don't understand books like this. Non drug users certainly don't need to be convinced or scared. As for drug users, if people are willing to happily ignore the actual disturbing facts about drug use, I can't imagine that a bit of fiction will suddenly sway them. All this does is cover standard ground: marijuana is a gateway drug. LSD is really bad. Drug addiction can slowly erode peoples' humanity. Drug traffickers are bad people.

      Overall, I'm disappointed and totally thrown by this. If you're looking to try Peters for the first time, please, please, do not read this. And if you had the misfortune to have already committed this error, don't take this as representative of Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels-- she is a much, much better author than this. She is, in fact, the creator of one of the most fantastic first-person narrators I have read (The Amelia Peabody series; first book is Crocodile on the Sandbank) and her other works are uniformly hilarious, articulate, entertaining, and intelligent. And unless you are a hardcore fan (and possibly even if you are), I suggest leaving all 400 rabbits alone.
    • 4/5
      This was a very interesting story and it evoked my memories of the sixties and seventies.
    • 2/5
      When Carol and her boyfriend Danny decide to go to Mexico City to track down her absent father, they become involved in a plot to smuggle drugs into the US. This is a muddled book, written in the early 1970s and is a kind of odd mix of Mexican antiquities and drug traffic. Pleasant but a little hard to follow.