| While in London, preparing to leave for the
1907 archaeological season, Amelia keeps herself busy by support the
cause of the Suffragettes. Nefret is doggedly pursuing her
medical studies where ever she is able to get training as a
woman. Ramses has become a "man about town",
complete with cane, accent and manner. Emerson is
frantically trying to finish his last season's publication. David is
studying Egyptology with Walter Emerson and the talk is that
Walter's daughter, Lia will be joining the Emersons in Egypt for the season.
Amelia is preparing to chain herself to the
fence of Mr. Romer, a prominent anti-suffrage member of parliament
and an avid collector of Egyptian Antiquities, when she witnesses a
strange incident. A delegation of suffragettes
proceed up through the gate and up the path to the front door to
present a petition.
To her surprise the group is allowed in.
In a moment, Mr. Romer appears to say he will receive the petition
and speak to the delegation. The demonstration breaks up
but Amelia remains looking thoughtfully at the house.
She leaves, holding the distinct impression that the figure
at the door was familiar, and it wasn't Mr. Romer, it was Sethos,
The Master Criminal, and Master of Disguise.
The sensation of the daring robbery has
barely subsided when Amelia, who is lured out under the pretense of an
emergency meeting of the suffragettes, is bodily taken
from her cab and shoved in a van in a kidnap attempt. Emerson and Ramses
arrive in time to rescue her, but it is a mystery as to who would
want to do such a thing.
Considering recent events, even the prospect of a
dull season looking into every previously explored tomb
in the Valley of the Kings looks appealing, and so the family pack up and
leave for Egypt. Walter and Evelyn see them off at the
dock, but they decline to let Lia travel to Egypt just yet.
In Egypt they are once again in the capable
and caring hands of Abdullah and his extended family. But the
Emerson family knows how to make it's own trouble.
Ramses and
David begin living a double life, archaeologists by day in the
Valley of the Kings and Ali the Rat and his friend by night in the
alleyways of Luxor. They are after illegal antiquities, but it soon becomes apparent that someone is after them.
This book introduces Horus, Nefret's irascible
cat, Catherine Vandergelt, nee Mrs. Catherine Jones, Lia
Emerson, and Abdullah's family members. |
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