London, 1924: When Alfie Barrington is stabbed to death outside his club, suspicion quickly falls on his widow, the lovely Sarah - and on her former beau, Enoch Hale. The American journalist has an alibi, but he doesn't know her name and Scotland Yard can't find her.Determined to solve this case without the help of his friend Sherlock Holmes, Hale launches and investigation that brings him into contact with Leonard and Virginia Woolf, bohemian writers and publishers; P.G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster; Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tut's tomb; and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.A second murder sparks journalistic speculation of a curse related to Alfie's time in Egypt as a competitor of Carter and his patron, Lord Carnarvon. Hale doesn't buy that, but he doesn't come up with a better solution until it is almost too late. And in the end, it is once again Sherlock Holmes who puts it all together.This exciting historical mystery concludes the Enoch Hale - Sherlock Holmes trilogy that began with The Amateur Executioner and continued with The Poisoned Penman.
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Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Publisher Information
Dedication
The Egyptian Curse
Death at the Opera
No Good News
Old Lovers
Leading Suspect
Bedford Place
Debt and Death
Gossip
In Search of Motive
Train Talk
An Old Friend
An Awkward Surprise
Finding the Alibi
Looking for an Introduction
Baines
Murder Calls Again
The Curse Revisited
Looking for Answers
Re-Partnering
On the Links
Chamber of Horrors
The Baronet’s Wife
Smuggling
New Scotland Yard
The Murder Room
The Widow
Back Matter
Notes for the Curious
Ronald A. Knox’s Decalogue of Detective Fiction (1929)