The Camel Driver - Krishtalka, Leonard
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"In the third book of the series, The Camel Driver, the vandalism of a world-famous museum diorama leads Przewalski into the grisly past of human taxidermy, a lurid trial, a Neanderthal infant, and an archaeological bombshell worth killing for. Arab Courier Attacked by Lions, a world-famous diorama at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, is vandalized in the middle of the night. The belly of the taxidermied camel has been slit open. Police find bits of flesh and fiber in the sand below. The flesh is from an infant, the fibers from an oiled cloth used to mummify cadavers. The diorama depicts the…mehr

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"In the third book of the series, The Camel Driver, the vandalism of a world-famous museum diorama leads Przewalski into the grisly past of human taxidermy, a lurid trial, a Neanderthal infant, and an archaeological bombshell worth killing for. Arab Courier Attacked by Lions, a world-famous diorama at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, is vandalized in the middle of the night. The belly of the taxidermied camel has been slit open. Police find bits of flesh and fiber in the sand below. The flesh is from an infant, the fibers from an oiled cloth used to mummify cadavers. The diorama depicts the sudden, ferocious attack by two Barbary lions on a Bedouin courier crossing the Sahara in the heat of the midday sun. It was created by a French taxidermist and naturalist for the 1867 Paris World Exposition, where it won the Prix D'Or, the gold medal. The Carnegie hires Harry Przewalski to uncover the macabre history of Arab Courier. Who is the camel driver-the Berber's skull, skeleton and skin are mounted under his clothing? Who is the child-why was its mummified hand sewn into the camel's belly 150 years ago? Is the vandalism connected to an apparent suicide of a brilliant Carnegie Museum archaeologist? The Camel Driver follows the first two novels in the Harry Przewalski series: The Bone Field and Death Spoke"--
Autorenporträt
Leonard Krishtalka is the author of award-winning essays and the acclaimed book, Dinosaur Plots. As a paleontologist, he has worked throughout the fossil-rich badlands of the American west, Canada, Patagonia, China, the Afar region of Ethiopia, and the Turkana region of Kenya. In his Przewalski mystery series, beginning with The Bone Field, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski unearths sex, treachery, and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin, and bones. The third novel in the series is The Camel Driver, due summer 2020. Coming soon: The Body on the Bed, a historical murder mystery.