Joshua Morse - ex-member of the Breath of Life Society.

Mr Narcissus DeWitt - member of the Breath of Life Society and the reincarnation of Thutmose III.

Miss Rhiannon Bartleby - member of the Breath of Life Society and the reincarnation of Nefertiti.

Miss Ida Doggett - member of the Breath of Life Society and the reincarnation of Cleopatra.

Daniel Miller - ex-member of the Breath of Life Society and Theodora’s adopted son.

Hephzibah “Heppy” Miller - member of the Breath of Life Society and Theodora’s adopted daughter.

Mrs Theodora Miller - the leader of the Breath of Life Society and the reincarnation of Hatshepsut.

Ahmed - a sailor, member of the SS Hatshepsut’s crew.

Mr Joseph Young - Alexander and George’s tutor.

Miss Adeline Beauvais - Amina’s governess.

Pik An - Rose’s maid (also maid to May on this journey).

May Wong (Wong Mei Li, also known as Monkey) - Hazel’s half sister.

Rose Wong (Wong Ngai Ling, also known as Ling Ling) - Hazel’s half-sister.

Vincent Wong (Wong Lik Han) - Hazel’s father.

Mr Mustafa Mansour - the manager of the SS Hatshepsut.

George Mukherjee - the Junior Pinkertons.

Alexander Arcady - the Junior Pinkertons.

Amina El Maghrabi - the Wells and Wong Detective Society.

Hazel Wong (Wong Fung Ying) - the Wells and Wong Detective Society.Daisy Wells - the Wells & Wong Detective Society.But there is danger all around, and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive… And within the society, everyone has a reason to want Theodora dead…ĭaisy and Hazel leap into action and begin to investigate their most difficult case yet. It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that Theodora’s timid daughter Hephzibah, who is prone to sleepwalking, is being framed. Three days into the cruise their leader, Theodora Miller, is found dead in her cabin, stabbed during the night. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two what they get, instead, is murder.Īlso travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen, who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, where they are taking a cruise along the Nile.

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