The curse of Pharaoh Sinus Nefertop is upon Blotto so it's up to Twinks to banish it! Yet another financial crisis at Tawcester Towers! So this time the Dowager Duchess decides to sell off the less important family possessions, which have, for a long time, been consigned to the attics of the ancestral home.
Blotto and Twinks are dispatched to help the valuer as he carries out an inspection. Not much of any worth is found but then the valuer spies some Egyptian artifacts, collected by the tenth duke, Rupert the Egyptologist. In some excitement he rushes back to London to consult his reference books, leaving Blotto and Twinks alone in the attic, where they are drawn to a sarchophagus decorated with hieroglyphs.
Twinks starts to translate: 'Anyone who desecrates this shrine will be visited by the Pharoah's curse...' - just as Blotto prises the lid off. From that moment on a series of unpleasant incidents start happening at Tawcester Towers but it is only when the Dowager Duchess' precious pug is struck down with a stomach bug that she instructs her son to sort things out and stop the accelerating sequence of disasters. It's the brainy Twinks who decide the only thing to be done is to put the genie back in the bottle and so she, together with Blotto and their trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett, undertake take the sarcophagus back to Egypt, to the Valley of the Kings as only when this is done will the effect of the Pharoah's curse be lifted...
| ISBN: | 9781472103048 |
| Publication date: | 17th July 2014 |
| Author: | Simon Brett |
| Publisher: | Constable Crime an imprint of Constable and Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Blotto Twinks |
| Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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The curse of Pharaoh Sinus Nefertop is upon Blotto so it's up to Twinks to banish it! Yet another financial crisis at Tawcester Towers!
Blotto, Twinks and Riddle of the Sphinx features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Blotto, Twinks and Riddle of the Sphinx was written by Simon Brett and published by Constable Crime an imprint of Constable and Robinson
Blotto, Twinks and Riddle of the Sphinx has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Blotto Twinks series
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