The Serpent on the Crown (Amelia Peabody Series #17)

It's 1922. Amelia Peabody and her family have returned to the Valley of the Kings, and look forward to delving once more into the mysteries buried in Egypt's sands. But a widow's strange story — and even stranger request — will plunge them into a storm of secrets, treachery, and murder.

The woman has come bearing a treasure — a golden likeness of a forgotten king — which she claims is cursed. She says it has killed her husband and unless it is returned to the tomb from which it was stol…