The bit about the nose: unfortunately correct. Another rumor was that Margie and Vincent wrote every day, still in love but destined, like Abelard and Heloise, for a life of longing correspondence. Rumor had it that the syphilis had collapsed his nose. Vincent had returned from the European theatre with rashes all over his body, been sent to a sanatorium in Albany, and hadn’t been seen in Stickney since. She had hair like her late mother’s, like dark water you could drown in.īut by twenty-three she’d been noticed with only one boy. She wasn’t even blond, to the annoyance of those who hopefully lemoned their hair each summer. Still, she was the undisputed local beauty, a striking girl with a stronger resemblance to the Modiglianis in the library art books than to a dish-soap model. In a breathless adventure that takes her across the globe, Charlie must fight for her life against ruthless enemies, match wits with Cleopatra, and solve the two-thousand-year-old mystery to prevent the most powerful treasure of the ancient world from falling into the wrong hands.In both 19, Margie Bixby was crowned Trout Queen of the Upper Delaware River, an honor she lost in 1948 only because it wouldn’t do for the daughter of the newspaper editor-the editor of the paper that sponsored the pageant-to win three times. She left a series of devious clues behind for her children to find it, but they were lost to history…until now.
However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her wealth and influence, so she hid it before committing suicide. In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. This time, the great ruler Cleopatra has left behind an extremely valuable and powerful treasure, its location encoded on an ancient stone tablet. Charlie Thorne isn’t going down without a fight.Īfter tracking down incredible discoveries by Einstein and Darwin, Charlie is back. In this third book in the Charlie Thorne series from bestselling author Stuart Gibbs, Charlie tracks down Cleopatra’s greatest treasure in Egypt.Ĭharlie Thorne is a genius.
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