Peters, Elizabeth

The dead man is an antiquities dealer murdered in his Cairo shop. When a sinister Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah, Amelia can't resist following his trail. There is a mysterious scrap of papyrus and a missing mummy case to investigate while she keeps at least one eye on their precocious son, Ramses and his Egyptian cat. But the digging turns dangerous when Amelia and Emerson look for answers in an ancient tomb.

Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. The corpse of a night watchman was found sprawled in the British Museum. what or who killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguinglydelicious for Amanda to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain's shores.

A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archaeologist husband are intrigued , to say the least.

Jacqueline Kirby, a retired librarian and an avid devotee of King Richard III, is invited to an English country house for a weekend to assist in clearing the King's name of the crimes attached to it. A practical joker tries to enliven the proceedings with a recreation of the 15th century murder methods and one of the jokes proves fatal.