Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is
skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has
foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And
she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy's curse that caused
the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was
found sprawled in the mummy's shadow, a look of terror frozen on the
guard's face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that
seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now
that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their
precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain's shores. But a contemporary
curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London
thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of
Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous
sights on his relentless pursuer . . . Amelia Peabody!