- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (16 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747517541
- ISBN-13: 978-0747517542
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 64,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Someone in ancient Thebes is killing young girls, quickly, efficiently and silently. So much so that without Huy the Scribe's natural forensic talent no one would even realise that they had been murdered. Together with the policeman Merymose, Huy begins the search for the killer.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the second of a series of six thrillers by Anton Gill set in Ancient Egypt at the time of Tuntankamun. The books share the same hero, the world's first private eye, an ex-scribe called Huy, and although the books can be read separately, some of the storylines overlap from one book to the next. The historical background is authentic, and the mean streets of the Southern Capital (Luxor) are brought vividly to life, together with the people who inhabit them. CITY OF DREAMS sees Huy in pursuit of a ruthless serial killer against a backdrop of political intrigue and an equally ruthless struggle for power.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Huy had been a scribe during Akhenaten's reign. He survived the bitter return to the old ways, gods & a new pharoah's reign under the yoke of rivals Horemheb & Ay, but at the cost of his profession. Unable to live by previous means he is drawn 'unofficially' to assist in the mysterious deaths of young beautiful girls by a Medjay policeman. The deaths are due to unknown cause & pressure mounts to find the guilty party(ies) quickly. Huy uses keen observation, commonsense, contacts and instinct to probe the frightening murders. The author sets the mood & period very capably. Dialogue & descriptions are very readable & are void of distracting 'modernisms' & comparisons.While not the 'greatest' book one may read, it is a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon distraction & a pleasure to read, probably more than once.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
If you like mystery & Ancient Egypt this is a fine choice
5 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
Huy had been a scribe during Akhenaten's reign. He survived the bitter return to the old ways, gods & a new pharoah's reign under the yoke of rivals Horemheb & Ay, but at the cost of his profession. Unable to live by previous means he is 'unofficially' asked by a Medjay policeman to assist in solving the mysterious deaths of young beautiful girls.
The deaths are due to unknown cause & pressure mounts to find the guilty party(ies) quickly. Huy uses keen observation, commonsense, contacts and instinct to probe the frightening murders.
The author sets the mood & period very capably. Dialogue & descriptions are very readable & are void of distracting 'modernisms' & comparisons.
While not a 'classic', it is a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon distraction & a pleasure to read.
The deaths are due to unknown cause & pressure mounts to find the guilty party(ies) quickly. Huy uses keen observation, commonsense, contacts and instinct to probe the frightening murders.
The author sets the mood & period very capably. Dialogue & descriptions are very readable & are void of distracting 'modernisms' & comparisons.
While not a 'classic', it is a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon distraction & a pleasure to read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good series, see prior review of 1st book about Huy "City of the Horizon"
18 May 2007
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This is the second book about the ex-Scribe Huy, forbidden to work as a Scibe (one of the most prestigious professions for a commoner) due to his link to the court of the "Great Criminal" the now dead Pharaoh Akenaten. Huy in his youth was a "true believer" in Akhenaten's new religion. Now, older, he doesn't know what he believes. However, due to his past, he is forever marked as untrustworthy" by the current regime, controlled by General Horemheb and Ay (a commoner,but the father of the late Queen Nefertiti), and led by the figurehead Pharaoh, the boy king Tutankhamun,who is still a child. Since he can't be a scribe, Huy has learned he has a gift for solving "problems", and rather unbelievably, these men in power turn to him when the daughters of nobles are being killed by a serial killer. Not to reveal the plot, but that was hard to believe. At any rate, as I said in my review of the first book, the concept of someone whose life has been destroyed in the aftermath of Akhenaten's fall, like someone of the 20th Century, who was a minor unknown person in Stalinist Russia or Maoist China and was somehow on the wrong side, and who then and forever had to scrabble and scrape to survive. In Huy's case he previously he held a proud profession and a middle or upper middle class lifestyle in the nation's new capital...all that was gone from him without his ever being given a chance to "recant that some were given...that is interesting and could be made more so I think. His loss of wife and son (she left due to his "politics" in the last days of the Akhenaten era) are never discussed, which I find not realistic. The books in the series are interesting but could be better.
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