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Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Disgusted when he is denied access to the pyramids of Dahshoor, Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson, aided by his archaeologist wife Amelia Peabody, finds his curiosity piqued when an antiquities dealer is murdered and a mummy case disappears.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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On the death of her father, 32-year old Victorian heiress Amelia Peabody travels Egypt to indulge her interest in Egyptology. She travels with Evelyn Barton-Forbes and her trusty parasol which comes in handy on more than one occasion. In Cairo the pair meet archaeologists Radcliffe and Walter Emerson and sparks fly between Radcliffe and Amelia. The groups meet again at Emerson's excavation where Amelia saves Radcliffe's life and takes charge of his...
Author
Series
Another Coop heist volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell his insatiable hungers, Ramses the Damned turns up in Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey and begins a romance with heiress Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster.
7) Little Knell
Author
Series
Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 18
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan is dragged away from his cases to oversee the transfer of an ancient Egyptian mummy and case, but the simple task is soon complicated when the body of a young woman is found inside the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world's largest private collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts, for the unveiling of George Cardavan's latest acquisition: a bone fide Egyptian mummy. When a bloodstained body is discovered beside the empty sarcophagus, Ishmael is dismissive of the theory that the mummy's curse is to blame. Instead he sets out to uncover the human killer responsible. But...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
DC Callum MacGregors career was going pretty well until he covered up for a cock-up to protect his pregnant crime-scene tech girlfriend. Now Callums stuck on a squad with all the other misfits the officers no one else wants but who cant be fired. Never likely to get within reach of a decent case again. Until they accidentally get handed the biggest murder investigation Oldcastle has ever seen. When a mummified body is found in the local rubbish dump,...
10) Bone River
Author
Publisher
Amazon Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific Northwest. At night she continues her father's lifelong obsession: collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once thrived in the Washington Territory. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from the riverbank bordering her property--a mummy that by all evidence shouldn't exist. As Leonie...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
Author
Series
Serie Nora Kelly volume 2
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Leyendas apaches, minas abandonadas y experimentos secretos en la segunda entrega de la nueva serie de Preston & Child que mezcla arqueología, historia, asesinato y suspense. Corrie Swanson, joven agente del FBI, se enfrenta al descubrimiento de un cuerpo momificado en High Lonesome, un pueblo minero de Nuevo México abandonado hace mucho tiempo. El cadáver se encuentra en posición fetal, el rostro presenta un rictus terrorífico y entre sus ropas...
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Reawakened in turn-of-the-20th-century England, Ramses the Second and Cleopatra must face a ruler more ancient and powerful than either of them if they are ever going to discover the origins of the Elixer of Life that brought them back from the dead. By the best-selling authors of The Mummy or Ramses the Damned. Original.
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