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The Egyptologist: A Novel

4 Ratings: 4.5

A book by Arthur Phillips

How was Phillips to follow up a debut as startlingly brilliant asPrague? By doing something completely different. His story, set mostly in Egypt in the early 1920s, stars Ralph Trilipush, an obsessive Egyptologist. Trilipush is more than a little odd. … see full wiki

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Author: Arthur Phillips

Publisher: Random House

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review by TStocksl. August 13, 2008

Mystery, adventure, comedy, and horror story wrapped into a classic bundle

Truly novel story of misunderstandings, told in the form of letters and journals of two of the main participants in the story. The story reputedly revolves around the murder of an Australian and English soldier in Egypt the day after the end of the Great War, and around the attempt to find the missing Australian soldier to claim a bastard's inheritance. But as many people will come to learn, the story and even the characters are not what they seem to be. This is a mystery, … more

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review by cpw1952. January 25, 2011

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Oh, what a tangled web we weave!

The Egyptologist is an extraordinary, lush piece of literature that trots across the mummy-crazed globe of the 1920s and witnesses Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter's seminal discovery of the vast riches of Tutankhamen's un-pillaged virginal tomb. But, as in Caldwell and Thomason's "The Rule of Four" or Bondurant's "The Third Translation", things are simply not what they appear and any expectations a reader may have when they set eye to opening paragraph are bound … more

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review by Jerry_Saperstein. March 18, 2005

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A truly well done mystery

Arthur Phillips has created a marvelous mystery in "The Egyptologist." The story begins with the journal of Ralph M. Trilipush, intrepid explorer of Egyptian tombs, adjunct professor of Egyptology at Harvard. Trilipush, financed by the father of wife to be and his friends, is preparing an expedition to locate the tomb of Atum-hadu, a pharoah whose very existence is disputed. Quite unexpectedly, we are introduced to Harold Ferrell, former private investigator and now resident … more

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review by gradyharp. January 09, 2005

'All that glisters is not Gold'

Arthur Phillips is a fine wordsmith and a gifted technical craftsman of the letters. While nearly every page of his two novels (PRAGUE and now THE EGYPTOLOGIST) reinforce his skills as a writer, those same skills have a tendency to draw too much attention to themselves, leaving the story line of a novel at times tedious and taxing to read. Yet, given these inherent 'flaws', THE EGYPTOLOGIST is an entertaining read, an acceptable mystery whose other face is comedic, and a serious commitment on the … more

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