num_pages: 272
description: The second in the trilogy of Ancient Egyptian crime novels that began with 2018's Death of an Eye.Two Alexandrian fishermen come across a horrifying sight  the body of a skeleton floating upright at the bottom of the sea anchored in place by a cement weight around his feet. In Alexandria's rough-and-tumble construction trade they call that 'being fitted with a pair of Rhakotis sandals' and what's worse he's the second such victim in two years.Queen Cleopatra is busy rebuilding her city after the Alexandrian War and these murders are not to be allowed to interfere with this primary task so she charges Tetisheri her new Eye of Isis with the task of finding out who these men were when they were murdered and above all why.
language: English
title: Disappearance of a Scribe
publisher: Head of Zeus