Genre:
Historical / Mystery
Historical / Mystery
The Cairo Brief
Poppy Denby Investigates book 4
by Fiona Veitch Smith
| -From Goodreads- Intrepid reporter sleuth Poppy Denby is invited to attend the auction of the Death Mask of Nefertiti. The auction is to be held on the country estate of Sir James Maddox, a famous explorer and Egyptologist. Representatives of the world's leading museums will be bidding on the mask which was found, in Egypt, under murderous circumstances. Poppy and her colleagues from The Daily Globe, who are trying to stay one step ahead of their rivals from The London Courier, dismiss rumours of an ancient curse. But when one of the auction party is murdered, and someone starts stalking Poppy, the race is on to find the killer before 'the curse' can strike again. ISBN-13: 9781782642497 Poppy takes on a curse, spirits, and a killer... The Cairo Brief is definitely my favorite Poppy Denby Investigates book so far! Everything about the story was right up my alley! From the stolen Egyptian funerary objects, to the Agatha Christie-esque murder at a house party, to an appearance from the master of detective fiction himself, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the very first page Fiona Veitch Smith had me immersed in the 1920s world of artifacts and archaeology, seances and spiritualism, and, of course, where Poppy and the crew from the Daily Globe are found murder and mayhem is sure to soon follow. As an American reader I loved the quintessential British flavor of an upper-crust gathering at a country estate creating an Agatha Christie style houseful of suspects with any number of motives. |  This Book received a 5 Bark rating.
 Fiona Veitch Smith |
I loved every bit of The Cairo Brief and finished it in a matter of hours. It was just one of those stories I couldn't seem to put down even when I probably should have been doing other things. I also found Fiona Veitch Smith's historical note at the end to be quite fascinating as she explains a little bit more about King Tut, Nefertiti, and the Jazz Age preoccupation with spiritualism after the devastation and loss of WWI.
So, if you know your onions and enjoy a story that's definitely the cat's pajamas you've got to check out this fourth book in the Poppy Denby Investigates series, it's a winner.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives The Cairo Brief by Fiona Veitch Smith a 5 Bark rating.
So, if you know your onions and enjoy a story that's definitely the cat's pajamas you've got to check out this fourth book in the Poppy Denby Investigates series, it's a winner.
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives The Cairo Brief by Fiona Veitch Smith a 5 Bark rating.
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