The Vandemark Mummy

The Vandemark Mummy
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12+
Release Date
October 31, 1991
ISBN
0689314760
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MUMMY, MUMMY, WHO'S GOT THE MUMMY?

It's not a terribly valuable mummy, but its disappearance spells big trouble for Phineas and Althea's father, who is the curator of a small collection of Egyptian antiquities bequeathed to the college where he works.

A whispered phone call leads Phineas and Althea to the vandalized mummy without revealing the identity of the thief. Then someone far more important to Phineas than a fifteen-hundred-year-old mummy vanishes. In spite of what the police think, he knows his sister would not have run away, and he knows she's in grave danger. But can he unravel the mystery in time to save her life?

MUMMY, MUMMY, WHO'S GOT THE MUMMY?

It's not a terribly valuable mummy, but its disappearance spells big trouble for Phineas and Althea's father, who is the curator of a small collection of Egyptian antiquities bequeathed to the college where he works.

A whispered phone call leads Phineas and Althea to the vandalized mummy without revealing the identity of the thief. Then someone far more important to Phineas than a fifteen-hundred-year-old mummy vanishes. In spite of what the police think, he knows his sister would not have run away, and he knows she's in grave danger. But can he unravel the mystery in time to save her life?

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Siblings Phinneas and Althea plan on having a boring summer when they choose to live with their laid-back professor father rather than their career-oriented mother. (Their parents aren't divorced, just separated due to their careers.) But things change when their dad becomes curator of a collection of Egyptian artifacts to be housed at the campus library. Both bookish Althea and typical jock Phinneas are intrigued by the mummy that is the centerpiece of the collection-- and they're not the only ones. When the mummy is stolen, it's up to these two to discover who done it!

This is much more than a typical mystery, as the characters are really developed and their is a subtle subplot about family relations. Still, the mystery part is also top-notch, particularly a tense search when Althea disappears.
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