num_pages: 320
description: In a brilliant homage to Agatha Christie critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander sends Lady Emily to Egypt during British colonial rule to investigate a crime that leads back to the era of the Pharaohs.Lord Bertram Deeley a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities is entertaining his closest friends at a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor when he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast a victim of the lethal poison cyanide. Who amongst this group of his nearest and dearest would want to kill their generous host: an archeologist whose dig Deeley was funding until he suddenly withdrew support? A powerful politician whose career Deeley had secretly destroyed? A dyspeptic aristocratic English spinster whose hired travelling companion seems determined to protect her employer? Or even the formidable Mrs. Hargreaves Lady Emilys mother-in-law who may have spurned the advances of Lord Deeley when they were both younger? A key clue may lie with several ancient ushabtis exquisite three-thousand-year-old sculptures that played a role in yet another murder in Ancient Egypt a crime with a very real link to Lord Deeleys death. Lady Emily and Colin gather their suspects together to reveal the identity of a killer whose motive is as shocking as it is brilliant.
language: English
title: Secrets of the Nile
publisher: Minotaur Books