To do the dirty work for the dead... Including murder? Ancient Egypt's ultimate labour-saving device... in a riveting case for the Egyptologist- detective

THE SERVANT OF THE DEAD.The little ancient Egyptian Shabti figure placed in the tomb had these magic words written in hieroglyphs around its body: Hail Shabti Figure! Should you be called upon to perform any task, you will answer in his place “Here am I!” Stand ready for any work you are called upon to do. Whether to plough the fields, or open the channels and irrigate the banks with water, or to carry the sand from the East to the West or vice-versa. The Shabti figure answers in your place: “I will do it! I am here when you call!”

THE EGYPTOLOGIST DETECTIVE – 2 COMPLETE NOVELLAS Book 1 MURDER ON A NILE DIG Daniel Cane, archaeologist and reluctant detective, finds himself once again digging up the truth instead of relics. A buried Egyptian sanctuary in Abydos sets alternative theorists buzzing after the discovery of a mysterious golden portal. Is it a pylon gateway to the underworld of the dead? Or the last stronghold of Egypt’s gods, the Great Nine of the Ennead? Or, as some theorize, a kind of ‘stargate’ of advanced beings who brought a spike of technology to ancient Egypt? Then a series of shocking murders follows. The ‘archaeologist detective’ must uncover the identity of the killer as an ominous deadline for the world approaches. Book 2.‘THE SERVANT OF THE DEAD” Daniel Cane, Egyptologist detective, faces the most eerie and puzzling mystery case yet. Egyptologists are being murdered and an ancient Egyptian shabti figurine is left each time at the scene. What is the meaning of this signature to a series of bizarre crimes in Egypt?

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