Review: Mummy Madness!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2014
Wendy Darling is at it again in another zany adventure. This time it is...MUMMIES! Wendy is a real estate agent in Miami and ever since she got involved with Roger Jolly her life has never been dull. Wendy is what I imagine when you cross Lucille Ball with Indiana Jones. Barbara's writing style is to wrap many familiar things in a new way and in this book she pays a wonderful tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. Even naming a character closely to his aka Alfred Hiccup.Mummies starts right off on page one and sucks you in, once you begin reading it putting it down will be difficult. We meet new people as well as the return of some familiar ones. Once again we find Wendy is asked to do a favor for her old mentor Alfred Hiccup, Hic. Meanwhile Roger Jolly is off playing cat and mouse with the villainous mummy thief Kyzer Saucy. It is not long before Roger and Wendy's paths cross in Miami and they join forces.Wendy keeps you entertained and laughing from start to finish. I love the way this story incorporates so many Hitchcock references. The movie place and the actor names. I enjoy how she takes the names and created a spin on them with characters like Tippy Henman (Tippy Hedren) Stewart James (James Stewart) Gary Crant (Cary Grant)This book is the fourth in the series but it can be read alone, however if you do read it odds are you will be hooked and back for more.