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Name: The Egyptologist

Author: Arthur Phillips
Year: 2004
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Popularity: 3.4
Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Mystery, Humor, Thriller, Suspense
Culture: Egypt

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ISBN:
9780715633991
9780812972597
9781588364142
0715633996
0812972597
1402589565
1588364143
From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Novel about an Egyptologist who is obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.

Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée's fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.


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