Publisher's Synopsis
Gentleman Adventurer Heinrich von Schneemann finds himself in Germany, on the trail of Professor Hans Roth, Europe's most notorious Egyptologist. He arranges to place himself in the middle of an investigation into a most curious mummy. But Germany is his homeland, and there are familiar friends, knowledgeable enemies, and most ominous of all, members of his own family.Schneemann, cunning and reckless, finds all his plans in disarray. He will have to go undercover to resolve his problems. But he may not like the answers he finds, for contrary to appearances, the lying, cheating, roguish Schneemann is not a nice man and some of the victims he has left in his past are not content to stay there.A comedy crime novel set in 1902, The Mystifying Exploit Of The Scorned Caledonian Poetess pokes outrageous fun at jailbreaks, mummy stories and Edwardian England.
