Murder Among the Pyramids

1920s Lady Traveler in Egypt, Book 1

De: Sara Rosett

Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett

Escape on an Egyptian Excursion to the Land of the Pyramids!

Tour highlights include: Hieroglyphics and high tea in the desert, followed by murder after sunset . . .

It’s 1924, and Blix Windway has made a career out of her wanderlust, giving lectures to ladies’ groups about everything from the flora of the American desert to the beauty of the Swiss Alps, but she needs new material for her talks.

She strikes what seems to be an ideal agreement with an eccentric older lady. Blix will be her travel companion during a journey to Egypt, helping to smooth the way through customs and coordinate sightseeing tours. The arrangement will provide Blix with the perfect opportunity to photograph the pyramids and gather material for her next lecture series. But they’ve barely left England before the trouble begins—rough seas and an attempted robbery. Then a murder occurs during a tour of the pyramids.

Despite the attempts of the British officials to sweep the death under the rug, Blix becomes increasingly convinced that one of their tour party is a murderer. Blix’s search for the truth takes her from the posh sporting clubs and lavish gardens of Cairo to the narrow, twisting lanes of the city’s centuries-old bazaar and the vast desert around the Giza Plateau. Can Blix unearth the truth before the killer makes this journey her last?

Join Blix on this classic murder mystery from Sara Rosett, author of the beloved High Society Lady Detective series.

©2022 Sara Rosett (P)2024 Sara Rosett

5 Stars

Murder Among the Pyramids is just what I expect from Sara Rosett. The story is well written with engaging characters. I look forward to the next book.

The storyline and all the different twist and turns that came about during the book

I like this book as I do like the high Society lady book with Olive. This young woman has a different lifestyle and a different story but follows along the same sort of path, but I really liked her independence and the fact that she thinks things through and act on them.

Excellent adventure wrapped in a murder mystery.

Wonderful new series adventuring around Egypt solving murders while touring all the beautiful sights. I can’t wait to see where Blix travels next.

Egypt

Sara Rosette is a student of Agatha Christie and Elisabeth Peter’s and does them both proud, in my opinion.

Great new series discovered … in Egypt

From many other rave reviews I started this series. Like jumping into a lake, one really never knows if you’d find it to your liking. This book exceeded my expectations! Delightful and informative, humorous and well edited. I look forward to many more in the series.

Wonderful New Series

As an avid fan of Ms. Rosett's High Society Lady Detective Mystery series, I was excited to read this new series, and it did not disappoint. The characters are interesting; the mystery complex; and the spin on the Egypt/Cairo/Pyramids trope manages to avoid the banal. Our MC, Blix Windway, brings an energy to the story, in part due to her rather compelling job, that of a travelogue lecturer. No, she does not give a lecture in this book, but she and her trusty Brownie camera are photographing all the people, places, and things for future presentations. Apparently traveling UP the pyramids, even having picnics at the top, was the done thing, and no matter the amazing views, I can tell you that the entire scene had my vertigo tinged nerves on edge. I cannot wait to see where she takes us next. There is also the requisite (at least for me) budding friendship and maybe, just maybe, a potential love interest. This one checked all the boxes for me, and left me wanting more.

The narrator is critical to any audiobook, and Elizabeth Klett does a wonderful job voicing the characters.

rehash

I really enjoy Sara Rosett books. But this is a rehash of other traveling murders set in this time frame and a weak story line.
I gave it a chance because of it being by Sara Rosett. I wish she had given it another polish, deeper character development.
The condescension toward the reader knowledge during the story line was a bit much.
there was nothing memorable here. so sad.

Bleh….

Predictable story line, boring dialogue, horrible narrator. I adore the Amelia Peabody books, this is mot even close. Actually painful to listen.

Not terrible but a little disappointing

A good premise for a story, but I had hoped for more complexity in the story line and definitely in the dialogue. And I just couldn’t outlast the narrator’s “plummy” voice. A little too much plum and not enough reality.