This twentieth novel featuring Amelia Peabody was started and plotted by Elizabeth Peters and completed by Joan Hess following Peters' death.
As Amelia and her archaeologist husband head out to excavate the bust of Nefertiti, a series of men in monocles are murdered, heralding the re-emergence of criminal master of disguise Sethos.
Constable & Robinson Painted queen, paperback/elizabeth peters
