![]() ![]() No, Agnes’s encounter with a mummy is happening on Lord Showalter’s verdant green lawn, where butlers abound and strolling sitar players strain to create an exotic “atmosphere” for the first party of the season. Because reality for a seventeen-year-old debutante in 1815 London does not allow for camels-or dust even. She sees herself as a young Egyptologist who has arrived in Cairo on camelback. ![]() She sees herself wearing a pith helmet with antique dust swirling around her. An adventurous debutante refuses to settle for society’s expectations-and unleashes international intrigue (and possibly an ancient curse) along the way.Īgnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the wrappings-about to unlock ancient (and not-so-ancient) history. ![]()
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