Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist together with her devastatingly handsome & brilliant husband Radcliffe in another exciting escapade The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is living up to his reputation as ' The 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 middle of nowhere Nothing in this barren spot seems of any interest but then a murder in Cairo changes all of that The dead man was an antiques dealer killed in his shop so when a sinister-looking Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah Amelia can't resist following his trail At the same time she has to keep an eagle eye on her wayward son Rameses & his elegant & calculating cat & look into the mysterious disappearance of a mummy case