Title: Erased from memory /
Authors: O'Hehir, Diana, 1922-2021
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Egyptologists California Fiction.; Fathers and daughters Fiction; Women detectives Fiction; Senile dementia Patients Fiction.; California Fiction
Abstract: When Carla Day and her gentle, 86-year-old Egyptologist father, who suffers from Alzheimer's, visit Northern California's Egypt Regained Museum, where an ancient coffin lid he discovered is displayed, Dr. Day's concern for a man collapsed on the floor lands him briefly in jail as a murder suspect. The victim, who was just in a coma, later wakes up at the hospital and abruptly disappears -- only to turn up dead with an ankh in his mouth. While the intermittently confused Dr. Day stubbornly insists on revisiting the coffin lid, Carla launches an investigation that will put both her and her dad in danger.