Throughout the 1920s & 1930s, London was gripped by the supposed curse of Tutankhamun, whose tomb in the Luxor sands was uncovered in February 1923 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter. The site was plundered, & over the next few years more than twenty of those involved in the exhumation or in handling the contents of the tomb perished in strange & often terrifying circumstances, prompting the myth of the ` Curse of Tutankhamun`. Nowhere
- particularly London`s decadent West End
- appeared to be safe for those who had provoked the ire of the Egyptian death gods. A blend of meticulous research & educated conjecture, historian & screenwriter Mark Beynon turns armchair detective as he uncovers a wealth of hitherto unpublished material that lays bare the truth behind these fatalities. Could ` London`s Curse` be attributed to the work of a macabre mastermind? It soon becomes apparent that these deaths were not only linked by the ominous presence of Tutankhamun himself, but also by a murderer hell-bent on retribution & dubbed by the press as ` The Most Wickedest Man in the World`.