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Description
The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled.
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Mara: Slave girl
- Sheftu: Scribe
- Nekonkh: Captain of the Silver Beetle
- Queen Hapshepsut: Pharoh of Egypt
First Sentence
NEKONKH, captain of the Nile boat Silver Beetle, paused for the fiftieth time beside his vessel's high beaked prow and shaded his eyes to peer anxiously across the wharfs.
Table of Contents
Part I- Menfe
1 The Mysterious passenger
2 The Sale of a Slave
3 The War Hawk
Part II- The River
4 Young Man With an Amulet
5 Dangerous Bargain
6 Frightened Princess
Part III- The Palace
7 Royal Summons
8 Her Majesty, the Pharoh
9 Lion in a Snare
10 The Lotus Garden
11 Night Ride
Part IV- The Inn
12 The Sentry at the Gate
13 Conversation at an Inn
14 Shadow of the Dead
15 The Signal
Part V- The Ring
16 The Gamble
17 The Mark of Five
18 By the Dark River
19 Fatal Mistake
Part VI- Fatal Mistake
20 The Bait
21 The Quarry
22 Disaster
23 Capture
24 For Egypt
25 The Street of Sycamores
Authors & Contributors
- Eloise J. McGraw (Author)
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