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Reader reviewed by Bookworm9

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.