I recently read, and thoroughly enjoyed, The Murder of King Tut. Like many others in the world, I have been fascinated by the story of Tut and his untimely death when he was only a teenager. Unlike some people, I have never been interested in reading tomes of history on this subject. I do, however, love a good mystery. This book was an exciting and quick read. Patterson and Dugard appear to have done and extensive research and have written a true crime tale of love and lust, power and deception, and murder.
The Murder of King Tut explores Tut’s life and times as a young boy and pharaoh in Ancient Egypt over 3,000 years ago. It also describes Howard Carter and his search for the hidden tomb…a search that began in 1907 and ended in 1923 with the unsealing of the much sought after sarcophagus of Tutankhamun. The story flashes back and forth from Ancient Egypt to Howard Carter in the early 1900s to Patterson in present day. The authors depict a completely plausible theory of the young king’s death. For those who want to read an exciting mystery that takes you to Ancient Egypt and to the searches for Egyptian tombs that took place in the early 1900s, The Murder of King Tut is a book you won’t want to pass up.