The discovery of a long-hidden ancient Egyptian scroll reveals the private journals of Eye, the grand vizier of the boy-king Tut, who recounts his desperate race against time to find the culprit responsible for the possible murder of Tut's father, eight years earlier.
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Supposedly translated from ancient Egyptian scrolls, this narrative presents Grand Vizier Eye, reputedly the world's first private investigator. Crafty and demanding, 18-year-old Tutankhamen surprises Eye (also his grandfather) with a command to find the murderer of Tut's father, Akhenaton, within a week without using torture. Eye scrambles as much as any overweight, battle-scarred, beak-nosed, balding man can to produce a culprit?and, luckily, his intelligence, foresight, and wealth more than compensate for any physical weakness. Levin's lively prose and ready wit bring bawdy life to well-known characters.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
That nudge-nudge wink-wink title should clue you in to a tongue-in-cheek mystery. Make that scroll-in-cheek. During a 1996 dig in the Valley of the Kings, a professor of Egyptology comes into possession of some large and almost perfectly preserved scrolls. As he writes in the introduction to his vernacular translation of the first one: ``You are about to read the first detective story in the history of the world.'' The scroll's first- person narrator is Eye, Grand Vizier of Thebes, who is given a possibly dangerous assignment by his 18-year-old grandson, the god- pharaoh Tutankhamen. Eye is ordered to discover--in just seven days--who killed Tut's father, the wicked pharaoh Akhenaten, eight years ago. There are, it seems, plenty of suspects. Was it the beautiful Nefertiti, Eye's daughter and Tut's mother? Physician Yuti? High Priest Aanen? General of the Infantry Horemeb? Tut's wife Ankhesenamun? Tut himself? In traditional private-detective style, Eye sandshoes from one suspect to another. But on the seventh day he has to serve a munificent banquet to the elite of Thebes and reveal to his king whodunit. Eye finds himself in the infamous rock-hard place, of course, but he's a survivor. . . . With out-of-place sprinklings of contemporary slang (``shmuck'' is one of the cleaner expressions), an offbeat debut that will probably strike readers as either a clever hoot or way too coy. The ending sets up the possible ``translation'' of a second scroll. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Can't tell you about the book, as it is unreadable. Page one is from somewhere in the middle of a chapter, the pages look like bad photocopies, display sideways on the Kindle, and are partial pages. I will be requesting my money back from Amazon on this one.
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