Title: The house of seclusion
Description: Chemist Phillip Norris is summoned to his estranged uncle's house, only to discover, in a vault below the apparently abandoned dwelling, a secure crypt where his uncle is awaiting death from an unknown adversary beside an Egyptian mummy case in which he wishes to be laid to rest. When the locked room fails to prevent the murder, Norris must make sense of all the baffling elements.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: New York (N.Y.)