THE JACKAL'S HEAD
by Elizabeth Peters
Althea Tomlinson, ostensibly chaperoning a man's daughter to Luxor, actually hoping to learn why her archaeologist father died, or was killed, meets his former colleague, John (romance) and discovers an as yet unplumbed tomb in the Valley of the Kings. She's also trapped there with an unbelievable discovery of papyri, sarcophagi, jewels and. . . murderers. . . . Forget the archaeological, pause over the first syllable, don't argue with the last three, and consider it as an easy option if you need this kind of gauzy Gothic entertainment.