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By Christine Trent

Undertaker Violet Harper and her husband are attending the long-anticipated beginning of Egypt’s new Suez Canal, which has been masterminded by means of the intense French engineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps. Fireworks, galas, and canal cruises are all a part of the deliberate festivities at stops alongside the way.

Tensions abound around the a variety of eu delegations in attendance. The Prussians, Dutch, French, British, Austrians, and Russians all have political grievances opposed to one another, made worse by means of inner struggles inside of Egypt itself.

All of this animosity is forgotten, although, in the middle of clinking glasses and deafening cheers. that's, till somebody dies in an unintentional hearth in the course of a fireworks demonstration…or used to be the blaze set to hide the demise of a probably blameless spectator? whilst she isn’t accepted to work out to the dressing of the corpse, Violet turns into suspicious.

As made up our minds to get to the evil root of the grisly affair as de Lesseps is to maintain it out of foreign newspapers, Violet begins her personal sophisticated research and quick realizes that there are extra suspects than there are sails on a royal yacht. used to be the homicide as a result political jealousies? Or is somebody engaging in a vendetta opposed to the good guy de Lesseps himself? in the end, who didn’t have hatred for the French, whose overall mastery of the Suez Canal intended they'd be controlling canal transport for the foreseeable destiny?

When one other guy is usually stumbled on murdered, it turns into visible that there are malevolent forces one of the revelers…who will cease at not anything to maintain Violet from getting to know the truth.

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