The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume’s mystery opens with a green-wrapped Peruvian mummy that arrives by mistake and soon conceals a murdered man, drawing an amateur sleuth into a tangle of stolen emeralds and buried secrets. Blending Victorian detective work with a whiff of the exotic and the macabre, the novel keeps its puzzle turning to the last page. Hume, once the best-selling mystery writer of his day, delivers exactly the kind of ingenious plotting that made him famous.