num_pages: 107
description: Four classic stories by the New York Times bestselling grandmaster of mystery each paired with an incisive new introduction. A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead with her hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb its rock walls intact provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. Two sisters take shelter in a shuttered old house at the end of a country roadonly to discover theyre not alone. And the authors most beloved characters Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson make an appearance in a newly uncovered tale with a witty nod to Sherlock Holmes. Settle in with this quartet of short storiesnow available for the first time in a single volumefrom one of the most popular mystery writers of all time. The Locked Tomb Mystery and Other Stories features a preface and introductions to each story by mystery authors Tasha Alexander Juliet Blackwell and Daniel Stashower and Egyptologist Salima Ikram.
language: English
title: The Locked Tomb Mystery: and Other Stories
publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road