As they have so many times before, Carla Day and her Egyptologist father are visiting the museum-and the ancient coffin lid he discovered years ago-when a fellow museum-goer falls to the floor, choking. Dr. Day rushes to pry off the poor man's tie, but instead of getting praise, he gets charged with murder by strangulation-and accused of faking Alzheimer's. The charges are dropped when it's learned that the museum-goer isn't dead, but comatose.
And when he vanishes, Carla begins to suspect that her father's faulty memory may be the only link between a millennia-old Egyptian death and a present-day California one. "Clever and poignant .
As they have so many times before, Carla Day and her Egyptologist father are visiting the museum-and the ancient coffin lid he discovered years ago-when a fellow museum-goer falls to the floor, choking. Dr. Day rushes to pry off the poor man's tie, but instead of getting praise, he gets charged with murder by strangulation-and accused of faking Alzheimer's. The charges are dropped when it's learned that the museum-goer isn't dead, but comatose.
And when he vanishes, Carla begins to suspect that her father's faulty memory may be the only link between a millennia-old Egyptian death and a present-day California one. "Clever and poignant .