Are there emeralds still to be found at Sikait in the Mountains of the Eastern, Red Desert of Egypt bordering the Red Sea? Donald Phipps, archaeologist, is fairly confident there must be some good stones left there although, since the time of Cleopatra two thousand years ago, nobody has really bothered to search for them. His 'patron', Solomon Hunter III, is arriving from New York, to see the stones. Where is Donald? He has vanished.
Donald's...