This is a roaring 20’s mystery featuring the spirited Jane Wunderly, a young widow traveling with her aunt and staying at the Mena House, a luxury resort situated outside Cairo, Egypt near some of the great pyramids. It is a cosmopolitan mystery with sharp pointed dialog and continental manners and customs but not stale or cliched because of the fresh and natural objective tone of Jane Wunderly’s narration.
A resort hotel is an intriguing setting for a mystery with its anonymity and activities focused on relaxation plus the Mena House has the glamour and exotic allure of its surroundings, ancient and modern Egypt providing an oasis of comfort for the wealthy guests who mingle at the bar, by the pool, on the verandas and in the restaurants. But the atmosphere is shattered when the flirtatious and flamboyant daughter of an English colonel is found shot dead in her locked room and Jane becomes a prime suspect.
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