{"id":2619,"date":"2021-05-27T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2023-03-09T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:06:23","slug":"the-return-of-the-pharaoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Pharaoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s controversial, but I often enjoy reincarnations of classics more than the originals. For example, Sophie Hannah\u2019s Agatha Christie novels feature the same kinds of characters and plots as the originals but leave out the originals\u2019 antisemitism. Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s works are less cruel than Christie\u2019s, but they\u2019re still steeped in an English class system that, at best, dismisses women and anyone not white. Nicholas Meyer\u2019s revival, \u00e0 la Hannah\u2019s Poirot, features the best of the old and makes the stories kinder, yet still imparts the flavor of the beloved detective and his admiring sidekick. In this tale, which follows Meyer\u2019s <em>The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols<\/em>, Watson again narrates, taking readers to Egypt, where his wife is recovering from TB while the intrepid detectives seek the Duke of Uxbridge, who has gone missing while seeking a pharaoh\u2019s gold. Meyer explores the politics of Egyptology and of nineteenth-century Egypt, where local, Ottoman, and British interests met and clashed, while serving the expected crackling mystery and haughty characters waiting to be brought down. <strong>A must for fans of the series and of thoughtful historical fiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s controversial, but I often enjoy reincarnations of classics more than the originals. For example, Sophie Hannah\u2019s Agatha Christie novels feature the same kinds of characters and plots as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[103,55,67],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-adaptations","tag-mystery-detective","tag-traditional"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Pharaoh-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Pharaoh-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}