The Green Mummy

The mummy is green. That's the first thing that should trouble you. In Fergus Hume's delightfully eerie Victorian mystery, young Archie Hope has done the unthinkable to win his beloved: he's purchased a rare Peruvian mummy from Malta to appease Lucy's archaeologist stepfather, Professor Braddock. But when the mummy arrives glowing an unnatural green, and Assistant Harrison dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes of romance become decidedly fatal. The household includes the Professor's peculiar servant Cockatoo, a tattooed Solomon Island dwarf with yellow-dyed hair who worships his master like a god. When the mummy vanishes entirely, Archie finds himself trapped in a web of dark secrets where Victorian archaeology's obsession with the exotic collides with murder and menace. It's a rattling good tale that blends gothic intrigue with imperial adventure, and proves that winning a bride can be a deadly business.