Description

After eluding a kidnapper in Manchester, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody characterizes her unusual family to Cairo when more—only to become trapped nearly instantly in a net of bloodthirsty cults and stolen items. Villainy is running wild in Egypt this 1907 historical period, however the people of the smart Peabody-Emerson family have previously proven themselves to be powerful opponents. Nevertheless, whenever a great-condition papyrus of the Book of the Dead drops to their hands, and the corpse of an unethical vendor in stolen antiquities is located hanging in the Nile, the Emersons' leads for enduring this excavation period untouched seem progressively gray.