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Author
Series
Ethan Gage adventures volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acquiring an ancient medallion covered with indecipherable symbols, expatriate American Ethan Gage is forced to flee for his life when he is framed for murder and forced to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte on the emperor's quest to conquer Egypt.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss.
Author
Series
Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Ethan Gage adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expatriate Ethan Gage, in the Holy Land to save his former lover Astiza and to search for the revered legendary Book of Thoth, is in danger again as Napoleon's army marches towards Jerusalem.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from dealing in drugs and various protection rackets. While family members jockey for power, the people below live in squalor, dreaming of the revolutionary heroes their poverty produced.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Amelia Emerson and her archaeologist husband leave England to assume leadership of an expedition in Egypt struck with tragedy and mystery.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive. His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news...
12) Palace of desire
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
32-year-old Victorian gentlewoman, Amelia Peabody receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and...
Author
Series
Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.
18) The Cairo affair
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when, this time, he hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved, calling to ask why her husband...
Author
Series
Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2008], c2005
Language
English
Description
Joining forces with Israeli cop Arieh Ben-Roi, Egyptian detective Yusuf Khalifa investigates the discovery of a body at an isolated archaeological site, a death he connects with a murdered Israeli, which ultimately leads to an enigma dating back to 70 A.D.
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