Title: The Scatologist
Product review: Arthur Phillips' The Egyptologist is disappointing on many counts. As a mystery, it is very obvious. There is no need to read all the way to the end to find out what happened, although some after the fact additions in the form of a lost letter from a previously unused narrator do add a bit of clarity. The two major narrators describing the story and their variant perspectives on the story, which were meant to be humorous, came off as tedious and self-absorbed. I found myself skipping many pages. The Egyptology side of the story was weak, as was the description of the settings in Luxor and Cairo. Some people might find the idea of Egyptologist discovering a porn-star king and his tomb amusing, but the book could be retitled the Scatologist. I'll take Death on the Nile any day over this book.
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