Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her speeding archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once more at risk as they look for a useful, stolen bust of mythical Queen Nefertiti during this long-awaited, eagerly expected ultimate installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling series.

Arriving in Cairo for an additional exciting excavation season, Amelia Peabody is enjoyable in her based lodge suite in Cairo, while a guy with knife sticking out from his again staggers into her chamber and utters a unmarried word-"Murder"-before collapsing at the tiled flooring, lifeless. one of the few possessions he's sporting is a sheet of paper with Amelia's identify, and a calling card bearing one observe: "Judas." so much in particular, the stranger is donning a gold-rimmed monocle in his left eye.

It quick turns into obvious that somebody has stored Amelia from a would-be assassin-someone who's maintaining a cautious eye at the intrepid archaeologist. And there will be just one resolution: the intense grasp of conceal, Sethos.

But neither assassins nor the Genius of Crime will deter Amelia as she and Emerson head to the excavation website at Armana, the place they are going to witness the invention of 1 of the main beneficial Egyptian artifacts: the long-lasting bust of Nefertiti, stepmother to King Tutankhamun.

For Amelia, this excavation season will turn out to be unforgettable. all through her trip, a parade of guys in monocles will die lower than suspicious situations, interesting new relics should be unearthed, a diabolical secret can be solved, and a super felony will supply his ultimate problem . . . and maybe be unmasked at last.

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