Tomb of the Golden Bird - Elizabeth Peters [0]
Elizabeth Peters
To Phil and Kathe Gust
Members of the Fellowship
CONTENTS
LIST OF CHARACTERS
CHAPTER ONE
“Ramses!”…
CHAPTER TWO
Ramses jumped back away from the flames licking at his…
CHAPTER THREE
By the following afternoon the contents of the cable carter…
CHAPTER FOUR
For a few minutes the silence was absolute. Had we…
CHAPTER FIVE
Lord Carnarvon and his daughter left for Cairo and England…
CHAPTER SIX
When the lights came on again I saw a terrifying…
CHAPTER SEVEN
“That rascal carter has purchased a motorcar,” Emerson shouted. “Can…
CHAPTER EIGHT
“He was referring to carter and carnarvon,” I explained.
CHAPTER NINE
With Emerson out of the way we got on better,…
CHAPTER TEN
We were in the drawing room waiting for dinner to…
CHAPTER ELEVEN
He had known Nefret would insist on going with him…
AFTERWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY ELIZABETH PETERS
CREDITS
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
LIST OF CHARACTERS
The Emersons and their kin
Professor Radcliffe Emerson, “the greatest Egyptologist of this or any other century”
Amelia Peabody Emerson, his wife
“Ramses,” Walter Peabody Emerson, their son
Nefret Emerson, Ramses’s wife
David John and Charlotte (Charla), their twin children
Walter Emerson, Radcliffe’s younger brother
Evelyn Emerson, his wife
Seth, alias Sethos, alias Anthony Bissinghurst, Radcliffe’s “other brother”; half-brother of Radcliffe and Walter
Sennia Emerson, child of Amelia’s nephew (formally adopted)
David Todros, grandson of Abdullah (see below)
Lia Todros, née Emerson, his wife, daughter of Walter and Evelyn
Gargery, their butler, who considers himself a member of the family
Their Egyptian family
Abdullah, their former reis (foreman), now deceased (or is he?)
Selim, his youngest son, the present reis
Daoud, Abdullah’s cousin, assistant reis
Kadija, his wife
Sabir, his son
Ali Yussuf, Hassan; his other sons
Fatima, the Emersons’ housekeeper in Luxor
Vandergelts and staff
Cyrus, American millionaire, longtime friend of the Emersons, and sponsor of excavations in Egypt
Katherine, his wife
Bertie, her son, adopted by Cyrus
Jumana, daughter of Abdullah’s brother, first Egyptian woman trained in Egyptology
Suzanne Malraux, artist
Nadji Farid, excavator
Luxorites
Inspector Ibrahim Aziz, chief of Luxor Police
Lieutenant Gabra, his assistant
Deib, Farhat and Aguil ibn Simsah, tomb robbers
Azmi, enterprising water boy
Wasim, a guard
Elia, the twins’ nursemaid
Kareem, incompetent footman of the Emersons’
Badra, sous-chef
Jamad, stableman
Maaman, the Emersons’ cook
Abdul, servant at Winter Palace Hotel
Ishak, guard in Valley of the Kings
Reis Girigar, Howard Carter’s reis
Ali, suffragi at Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo
Ali Ibrahim, boatman
Journalists
Margaret Minton, Morning Mirror (married to Sethos)
Kevin O’Connell, Daily Yell
Bradstreet, Morning Post (Cairo) NY Times
Bancroft, Daily Mail
Arthur Merton, London Times
Archaeologists and hangers-on
Howard Carter, excavating in the Valley of the Kings
Lord Carnarvon, his patron, aka “Pups”
Lady Evelyn Herbert, Carnarvon’s daughter
“Pecky” Callender, engineer and architect, friend of Carter
Herbert Winlock, head of the Metropolitan Museum staff at Deir el Bahri, Luxor
George Barton, one of his staff
Pierre Lacau, Director of the Service des Antiquités
Rex Engelbach, Chief Inspector for Upper Egypt
Ibrahim Effendi, his assistant
Theodore Davis, former American sponsor of excavations in the Valley of the Kings
Arthur Weigall, former Chief Inspector for Upper Egypt
Arthur Mace, member of Metropolitan Museum staff
Harry Burton, photographer, ditto
Hall and Hauser, draftsmen, ditto
Alfred Lucas, head of chemical laboratory of Survey Department, Egypt
Mr. and Mrs. Davies, artists, copyists of Egyptian tombs
Alan Gardiner, British philologist
James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist
His wife; his son Charles
Animals
Amira, dog
the Great Cat of Re
Risha, Ramses’s Arabian stallion
Moonlight, Nefret’s mare