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Death Comes as the End
Dedication
To Professor S.R.K. Glanville
Dear Stephen,
It was you who originally suggested to me the idea of a detective story set in Ancient Egypt, and but for your active help and encouragement this book would never have been written.
I want to say here how much I have enjoyed all the interesting literature you have lent me and to thank you once more for the patience with which you have answered my questions and for the time and trouble you have expended. The pleasure and interest which the writing of the book has brought to me you already know.
Your affectionate and grateful friend,
Contents
       Dedication
       Author’s Note
Part One
       Inundation
  1   Second Month—20th Day
  2   Third Month—4th Day
  3   Third Month—14th Day
  4   Third Month—15th Day
  5   Fourth Month—5th Day
Part Two
       Winter
  6   First Month—4th Day
  7   First Month—5th Day
  8   Second Month—10th Day
  9   Fourth Month—6th Day
Part Three
       Summer
10   First Month—11th Day
11   First Month—12th Day
12   First Month—23rd Day
13   First Month—25th Day
14   First Month—30th Day
15   Second Month—1st Day
16   Second Month—10th Day
17   Second Month—15th Day
18   Second Month—16th Day
19   Second Month—17th Day
       About the Author
       The Agatha Christie Collection
       Related Products
       Copyright
       About the Publisher
Author’s Note
The action of this book takes place on the West bank of the Nile at Thebes in Egypt about 2000 BC. Both place and time are incidental to the story. Any other place at any other time would have served as well: but it so happened that the inspiration of both characters and plot was derived from two or three Egyptian letters of the XI Dynasty, found about 20 years ago by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in a rock tomb opposite Luxor, and translated by Professor (then Mr.) Battiscombe Gunn in the Museum’s Bulletin.
It may be of interest to the reader to note that an endowment for ka-service—an everyday feature of ancient Egyptian civilization—was very similar in principle to a mediæval chantry bequest. Property was bequeathed to the ka-priest in return for which he was expected to maintain the tomb of the testator, and to provide offerings at the tomb on certain feast days throughout the year for the repose of the deceased’s soul.
The terms “Brother,” “Sister” in Egyptian texts, regularly mean “Lover” and are frequently interchangeable with “Husband,” “Wife.” Th ............

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