"Quite some crime scene,' Daniel Cane thought. 'A panorama'. NEW murder mystery fiction with the 'Egyptologist Detective'.

CHAPTER 1. Panorama of a crime. At night, by floodlight, Queen Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple in Egypt looked like the backdrop for a dramatic grand opera. Not a murder.

Quite some crime scene, Daniel thought. A panorama. The floodlights made a shadowy parade of the rows of colonnades that rose in a series of terraces linked by stone ramps. A stage set within an auditorium of cliffs. A drama attended by an expectantly watchful audience of stone and desert. Daniel Cane, the Egyptologist Detective, felt his jaded professional’s eyes, accustomed to ancient Egypt’s grandeur, widen at the spectacle. Here was the setting for a modern crime, triggered by events in Egypt three thousand, five hundred years earlier… The murder of an American, a celebrated female writer and historian, strangled to death in the shadows of the columns by a rope around her neck, ‘none seeing, and none hearing,’ except for the pillared ranks of witnesses. But how and why did the murder occur?