The Painted Queen: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense

Arriving in Cairo for the 1912-1913 excavation season, Amelia Peabody is relaxing in a bath when a man with a knife protrud-ing from his back staggers into the chamber and utters one word??Murder??before dying. It becomes apparent that someone saved Amelia from a would-be assassin?someone who is keeping an eye on the intrepid Englishwoman.