The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody Series #3)

The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed "Father of Curses." Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the "pyramids" of Mazghunah-countless mounds of rubble in the midst of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest-until someone gets killed.

The dead man is an antiquities dealer murdered in his Cairo shop. When a sinister Egyptian spotted at the crime scene tu…