The Green Mummy

A 1908 mystery novel by Fergus Hume in which an artist seeks his fiancée's stepfather's consent to marry, entangling the couple with an eccentric Egyptologist professor obsessed with obtaining a green-bandaged royal mummy and the secrets surrounding it.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic mystery and detective stories›Detective novels and casebooks›Sherlock Holmes and his rivals, 1887 to 1913

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Bibliophiles›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic mystery and detective stories›Detective novels and casebooks›Sherlock Holmes and his rivals, 1887 to 1913