"... When the final bandages were removed from the head four thousand years old, everything what John Vansittart Smith could do was cry out in surprise: first, he saw a cascade of braids black and shiny, then a broad forehead and white, adorned with arched eyebrows and thin, and two large eyes shaded by long eyelashes, a nose well shaped, sweet and fleshy lips and a chin gently curved: the mummy really represented the triumph of the art of embalming ... "
Paris, 1890: What secrets are hidden in the Louvre Museum, renowned worldwide for his collection of Egyptian artifacts and what is the true story of his mysterious guardian, as resembling an Egyptian of ancient times? These and other questions crowd the mind of John Vansittart Smith, an eminent scholar of Papyrology, the night he is accidentally locked inside the museum. Will he survive long enough to discover the truth? The
inventotre Sherlock Holmes draws us into a dark story of love and death, as old as the pyramids and enigmatic as the Sphinx.
€ 10.00
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