John Amos (2)

It’s the mid-1910s, and Flinders Petrie and Thomas Pettigrew have come a long way from when they started in the detective business in 1885; they’re now relatively famous and solidly middle aged. But the bachelor detectives miss the adventure of the Middle East.

Enter the head of the British Museum, where a priceless statuette of Aphrodite has been stolen. There’s murder and mayhem to follow, and Petrie and Pettigrew head to Syria to get the stolen goddess back.

I’m glad to say that show more author John Amos found himself the editor and the proofreader he lacked on this series’ debut The Cleopatra Caper. The plot is much more concise and coherent, and the typos, misspellings and syntax errors are gone. I enjoyed The Case of the Stolen Goddess much more — just not so much as to give the third entry in the series a chance. show less