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The Serpent on the Crown

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
350 pp

Originally published
  
2005

Genre
  
Historical mystery

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2005

ISBN
  
0-06-059178-1

Author
  
Barbara Mertz

Publisher
  
HarperCollins

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Preceded by
  
Tomb of the Golden Bird, Guardian of the Horizon, Children of the Storm, Lord of the Silent

Followed by
  
Tomb of the Golden Bird, Children of the Storm

Similar
  
Barbara Mertz books, Amelia Peabody series books, Other books

The Serpent on the Crown is the 17th in a series of historical mystery novels, written by Elizabeth Peters and featuring fictional sleuth and archaeologist Amelia Peabody.

Contents

Plot summary

In 1922, the Emersons are excavating at Deir el Medina when a melodramatic visitor delivers a challenge—and a solid gold ancient statuette—to them: find out where it came from and why it brings bad luck to its owners. Emerson, of course, doesn't believe in curses, but he does believe someone has robbed a find of historic proportions. When their visitor turns up dead and her stepchildren disappear, everyone except the Emersons believe the murder is a family affair.

Ramses, meanwhile, finds a papyrus which he suspects to be of historic importance, and an assistant who is not all he seems.

Title

The book's title is from the Poetical Stela of Thutmose III:

"I have robbed their nostrils of the breath of life and made the dread of you fill their hearts. My serpent on your brow consumed them."

References

The Serpent on the Crown Wikipedia