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Amelia and her husband, Professor Radcliffe Emerson, return to Egypt for the 1894–1895 season to excavate the ruined pyramids of Mazghunah. Emerson had planned to dig at Dahshoor, but the Director of Antiquities, Jacques de Morgan, had retained the excavation rights for himself. For the first time, the Emersons bring along their precocious young son Ramses and his cat Bastet, along with John, a sturdy footman, to watch him.

While in Cairo, Amelia sees a scrap of papyrus at a shop, yet the owner Abd el Atti will not admit to it. He is found that night, murdered in his shop........