Hounds and jackals

by Barbara Wood

Lydia Harris's search for her sister, Adele, and an explanation of a mysterious ivory jackal gamepiece her sister has sent her, leads from Rome to Cairo and finally to the pharaohs' tombs in the Valley of the Kings. (via Worldcat.org)

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