A Doctor Winchester has already been called to tend to the patient, and Ross quickly calls a sharp police officer, Sergeant Daw, to assist in the investigation.
Abel has been found in his room of Egyptian antiquities, lying on the floor near his safe with his wrist horribly mauled by some animal. When Malcolm Ross arrives at the Trelawny house, he finds a scene in near chaos. The Jewel of Seven Stars is relatively unknown, which is surprising - it is one of the earlier stories about the reanimation of an ancient Egyptian mummy, and it is quite a thrilling tale! It also uses state-of-the-art science of the time to bolster the story - with rather amusing results. (And there’s this one that I recently acquired and am dying to read.) He wrote a number of other supernatural thrillers, The Lair of the White Worm being perhaps the next best known. Stoker is, of course, best known for his influential 1897 novel Dracula, which really sparked the entire modern vampire craze (though there were precursors). Cover of the first edition of “The Jewel of Seven Stars”.
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