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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 The Egyptologist
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'This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston, by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.

'Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancée's fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Random House ,
      2004 .
      Extent: 383p.
      ISBN: 1400062500 (acid-free paper)
    • Carlton North, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2010 .
      Extent: 383p.
      Description: illus., facsims., maps
      ISBN: 9781921640315 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 February 2010; (p. 22)

— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery Lenny Bartulin , 2010 single work novel ; The Egyptologist Arthur Phillips , 2004 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 February 2010; (p. 22)

— Review of The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery Lenny Bartulin , 2010 single work novel ; The Egyptologist Arthur Phillips , 2004 single work novel
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