Carter's Conundrums
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When English tourist Meredith (Merry) Pink finds herself inadvertently locked in the Howard Carter museum for the night, she has no idea about the thrilling Egyptian adventure she's about to embark upon. The museum was once Howard Carter's home, where he lived during the historic years of his discovery and clearance of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Attempting to break free, Merry accidentally smashes the frame surrounding an original Carter watercolour of an elusive Egyptian Queen. The discovery of a hidden message inside from Howard Carter himself, together with a set of mysterious hieroglyphics, sets her off on a quest to solve the puzzle of a lifetime.Along the way she teams up with the dashing Adam Tennyson, a self-proclaimed "thwarted" Egyptologist. Together, they set about unriddling the ancient texts, and find themselves on a madcap treasure hunt around some of Egypt's most famous locations.An exciting blend of adventure, mystery and romance, Carter's Conundrums will demand all of Merry's imagination and love of the fabled ancient land of the pharaohs to keep her on the trail, and out of trouble.
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2 primary booksMeredith Pink's Adventures in Egypt is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Fiona Deal.
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Having loved E. Peters' Amelia Peabody series, I looked forward to a modern return to Howard Carter's Egypt. (I'm delighted that my copy has a modern cover design, too.) I liked this story overall, although it was about 100 pages before the story took off. It has humor and armchair travel highlights, and Deal has more than a passing knowledge of Egyptology. She tends to stray into the territory of information for its own sake, and over-explains instead of just getting on with the story. The book could easily be tightened. The typos and 1.5 spaced typesetting were off-putting. But it could be a promising series.
