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Just finished "The Serpent on the Crown" by Elizabeth Peters, the 17th book in the "Amelia Peabody" series of Egyptological mysteries. It's now 1922, and the Emerson family are approached by a lady novelist of cheap sensationalist books who claims that a golden statue her collector husband had bought was cursed, and the cause of his death. This novel is basically setting the scene for the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb the following year by Howard Carter, the events of which are described in the next book in the series. Very good indeed.
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