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    Violet and the Mummy Mystery
    Violet and the Mummy Mystery
    Violet and the Mummy Mystery
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    Violet and the Mummy Mystery

    By Harriet Whitehorn and Becka Moor

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    Can YOU solve the case of the missing mummy?

    Meet Violet Remy-Robinson, an amateur Sherlock Holmes in the making…
     
    When Violet’s cousin Agnes and her Aunt Mathilde arrive from Cairo, Violet is delighted.  Aunt Mathilde is a Professor of Ancient Egyptology and has discovered a mummy that may be the key to revealing the secret location of Queen Nefertiti’s tomb. Violet can’t wait to find out more! So when the precious mummy is stolen from the British Museum, it’s a disaster. Who has managed to pull off this crime right under the security guards’ noses and where is the mummy now?  It’s up to Violet and the gang to save the day!

    Complete with two-colour illustrations throughout by Becka Moor, this is a fresh and funny mystery and readers will fall in love with Violet’s quirky charm. Perfect for fans of Dixie O’Day, Ottoline and Goth Girl.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateAug 10, 2017
    ISBN9781471147180
    Violet and the Mummy Mystery
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    Harriet Whitehorn

    Harriet Whitehorn grew up in London, where she still lives with her husband and three daughters. She has studied at Reading University, the Architectural Association and The Victoria and Albert Museum and has always worked in building conservation. She currently works for English Heritage. Violet and the Pearl of the Orient was her first children’s book and the first in a series, followed by Violet and the Hidden Treasure, and Violet and the Smugglers.

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      Violet and the Mummy Mystery - Harriet Whitehorn

      It all began on a miserable, wet and cold January afternoon.

      It was just the sort of weather that makes you want to curl up and eat warm, buttery crumpets and drink hot chocolate, so you will be pleased to hear that is exactly what Violet was doing. She was sitting in her cosy kitchen, after a very dull day at school and a soaking-wet walk home with her best friend, Rose, and she was trying to warm up and cheer up. Pudding, Violet’s cat, was on her knee, hoping a bit of crumpet would miss Violet’s mouth and end up in his. And the Maharani, Violet’s cockatoo, was perched by the window, surveying the wintry weather with disgust.

      ‘Did you see the postcards for you?’ Norma, the Remy-Robinsons’ housekeeper, asked.

      Violet shook her head and Norma handed them to her.

      The first was a picture of a bright red sports car and, when she turned it over, her godfather, Johnny, had written on the back, Your First Car?!

      Violet giggled. At Christmas, she had spent a very jolly week in Dorset with her parents, Benedict and Camille, and Johnny and his wife Elena. They had stayed in a cottage that was at the end of a long dirt track. Much to Camille’s disapproval, Johnny and Benedict had taught Violet how to drive a car. She had loved it, almost as much as playing poker, which Johnny had taught her when she was very little, and they always had a game when they were together.

      The other postcard had a picture of an Egyptian mummy on the front, with the words, ‘Greetings from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo’. As you may know, Cairo is the capital city of Egypt and, although Violet had never been there, she knew all about the museum, because it was where her Aunt Matilde, Camille’s sister, worked as a Professor of Egyptology.

      Matilde was the opposite of Camille – she never wore a skirt or carried a handbag and her pockets were always full of penknives, magnifying glasses and strange ancient objects that she had found. She had crazy, curly black hair and little square glasses that always seemed to be slipping down her nose. Matilde had a daughter named Agnes, who looked exactly like a mini version of Matilde, except she had her father’s dark skin. He was an Egyptian archaeologist named Akhil and, although Matilde and he were divorced, they were still great friends. Akhil lived around the corner from Matilde, and Agnes went between the two houses. Violet and Agnes were almost exactly the same age and, despite the fact that Violet lived in London and Agnes lived in Cairo, they knew each other very well because they often stayed together with Grand-mère in the south of France.

      Agnes and Violet got on brilliantly most of the time, but they did have their quarrels, usually because Agnes was what you would describe as a little, or more accurately a lot, on the naughty side. She particularly loved practical jokes. Sometimes they were great fun and Violet was happy to play along, but sometimes Agnes went too far and got them into lots of trouble. For instance, last time they had all stayed at Grand-mère’s, Agnes had persuaded Violet to hide Agnes’s pet rat, Mr Ratty, in Benedict and Camille’s bed. Agnes adored Mr Ratty and Violet could see that he was rather sweet in a furry, brown, ratty sort of way. He lived in a small bag, called the Ratbag, which Agnes carried everywhere. Anyway, for most people, finding a rat in your bed would be bad enough, but Mr Ratty had a particular fondness for people’s noses and had bitten Benedict’s as Violet’s father had tried to remove the rat from the bed. Benedict had ended up with a large plaster on his nose and had failed to see anything funny about the joke.

      I could go on, but we need to get back to the postcard. On it, written in Agnes’s large, loopy handwriting, were the words, J’ARRIVE!!! which means I’M COMING!!! in French. Violet was baffled. Her mother hadn’t mentioned that her aunt and cousin were coming to stay, and when she asked Norma she had no idea either. Oh well, Violet thought, I’ll ask Mama later.

      Six o’clock was the magical hour for the Remy-Robinsons, when Violet’s mother and father, having finished work, would drink a cocktail and discuss their day with Violet. That evening, as her parents sipped hot rum punch, Violet showed them the postcard. Camille was as puzzled as Violet, and was about to say so, when the telephone rang. Benedict picked it up, while Camille and Violet listened.

      ‘Hello? Hello, Matilde, how are you? We were just talking about you . . . You have some exciting news? . . . Shall I pass you to Camille? . . . No, okay . . .’ There was a long pause. ‘Well, that does sound exciting. Queen Nefertiti? Really? And the mummy is here in the British Museum? . . . So you’re coming to London next week . . . and Agnes? She’s coming too . . . How . . . er . . . marvellous . . . Here’s Camille . . . she’s desperate to talk to you . . .’

      Camille took the receiver and immediately started gabbling in French to her sister.

      ‘Matilde thinks that there’s a link between Queen Nefertiti and a mummy in the British Museum. She’s coming over to investigate further. She thinks the mummy may lead to Nefertiti’s long-lost tomb!’ Benedict explained to Violet.

      ‘Wow! That would be amazing!’ Violet gasped. ‘It would be as incredible as when Tutankhamun was found.’ As far as Violet was concerned, Ancient Egypt was the most interesting thing

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