The Mummy Case Mystery
by Dermot Morrah
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Amidst Commemoration Night festivities at Beaufort College, Oxford, chaos erupts twice -- the first time during the playing of a prank using Professor Benchley's newly acquired mummy, the late King Pepy I, and the second time when a fire consumes the Bursary, coincidentally the building where Benchley resides. This combination of events results in a mystery: the disappearance of either Benchley or the mummy. Despite the coroner's ruling of accidental death for the professor, only one corpse show more is recovered among the ashes at the scene. Professors Sargent and Considine cannot let the matter rest with this verdict and go sleuthing, using all the scholarly know-how of their academic specialties and they find themselves entangled in a web of very unusual circumstances. show lessTags
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It is commemmoration night at one of the colleges at Oxford; by the end of the night one of the professors will be dead. Peter Benchley, professor of archaeology at Oxford, ends up dead in his room after a mysterious fire. But something is very strange: Benchley had just purchased a mummy of King Pepi I, complete with case; however, when the fire is put out the mummy and the case are missing. Peter's friends, Professors Sargent and Considine, don't agree with the coroner's inquest finding of death by accident, and set out to prove that their good friend was murdered. It seems that there are no end of suspects, and that list gets longer as time goes on.
A wonderfully-told story, one that I'm sure I'll be reading again soon. HIGHLY show more recommended if you love the classic mystery/crime stories! Originally written 1933. show less
A wonderfully-told story, one that I'm sure I'll be reading again soon. HIGHLY show more recommended if you love the classic mystery/crime stories! Originally written 1933. show less
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- The Mummy Case Mystery
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- The Mummy Case Mystery
- Original publication date
- 1933
- Epigraph
- "The Aegyptian Mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth." - Sir Thomas Browne
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- The hum of after-dinner talk subsided for a moment as the Provost and Fellows of Beaufort College, Oxford, suspended there several conversations to take an informed and critical interest in the opening of another bottle of po... (show all)rt.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The hum of after-dinner talk subsided for a moment as the Provost and Fellows of Beaufort College, Oxford, suspended there several conversations to take an informed and critical interest in the opening of another bottle of port.
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