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02097aam a2200361Ma 4500 001 731F7CCC8FBF11ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210213s2021 enk e 000 1 eng|d 020 $a 1785947133 020 $a 9781785947131 040 $d SILO 082 04 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Kingston, Alex, $e author. 245 14 $a The ruby's curse : $b a River Song/Melody Malone mystery / $c Alex Kingston with Jacqueline Rayner. 264 1 $a London : $b BBC Books, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 275 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Doctor Who. 520 $a 1939, New York. Private Eye, Melody Malone, is hired to find a stolen ruby, the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb -- but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. Can Melody escape the ruby's curse? 1939, New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus -- but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't believe in curses -- but is she wrong? From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt, River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed, she must team up with a most unlikely ally -- her own fictional alter ego, Melody. And together they must solve another mystery -- is fiction changing into fact -- or is fact changing into fiction? 600 00 $a Doctor $c (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Private investigators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Theft $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rubies $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Blessing and cursing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women authors $v Fiction. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Egypt $x History $y 332-30 B.C. $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Time-travel fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a Rayner, Jacqueline, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220217011103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=731F7CCC8FBF11ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search