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The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
The Return of the Pharaoh From the Reminiscences of John H Watson MD Author:Nicholas Meyer CAN TWO MURDERS, separated by three thousand years, be related? Is there a difference between coincidence and fate? Did John H. Watson, M.D., wintering in Egypt with his wife for her fragile health accidentally encounter Sherlock Holmes in Cairo? Or was it destiny? — In 1911, Egyptomania is all the rage. Rich Americans and titled Europeans are fl... more »ocking to the land of the pharaohs in search of fame and gold. One of those seekers, Michael, Duke of Uxbridge, has gone missing , and his strong-willed Brazilian wife (and her strikingly attractive brother-in-law), has hired Sherlock Holmes to locate the missing nobleman. It is a case that will take the detective into the bowels of pyramids, the wrappings of mummies, and a labyrinth of international intrigue as he attempts to navigate a power struggle between the British and Ottoman Empires, vying for hegemony in the region, and above all, control of the vital Suez Canal, with Egypt and its own national aspirations caught in the middle.
But behind and certainly before all lurks the shadow of Akhenaten, a long-forgotten pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Akhenaten's fanatic conviction that in place of many there is only one god plunged ancient Egypt into civil war. Now, thirty centuries later, Holmes and Watson are mired in a case that is far more complex than simply a missing aristocrat, leading them to wonder: How far is the reach of a dead pharaoh? Is it the curse of the mummy or the riddle of the Sphinx?
In a career of dangerous criminals, deadly confrontations, and sensational cases, Holmes has always trimphed. But in The Return of the Pharaoh, has the great detective finally met his match?« less