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The Clockwork Scarab (Stoker & Holmes series)

by Colleen Gleason

Ages: 14+

Published: 2013

Publisher: Chronicle

ISBN: 978-1-4521-1070-7

Keywords: Steampunk, Time travel, Egyptology

Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker investigate the deaths of young women in the Society of Sekhmet and a visitor's appearance from the future.