Some of Trelawney's wounds seem to be made by a cat Margaret owns a cat, but swears it was safely tucked away. His house, and especially his vast bedroom, is a veritable museum, with Egyptian artifacts, from mummies to sarcophagi, making for a strange, sinister setting.ĭragged from his sickbed, his wrist mutilated in an attempt to remove a safe key he keeps on a bracelet, Trelawney is put back to bed and a round-the-clock vigil is kept on him. Margaret's father, an Egyptologist, is comatose, and an attempt has been made on his life, or so it seems. The story opens with London barrister Malcolm Ross receiving a late-night summons to the home of Margaret Trelawney. The 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars follows the attempts to revive a five-thousand-year-old Egyptian queen. Bram Stoker made his imprint on vampire lore with Dracula, and five years later, he made yet another imprint on another iconic type of undead: the mummy.
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