When the ancient gold-covered corpse of the African ruler of Garamantia arrives at a London museum, it instantly becomes the sinister focus of a web of intrigue spun by all manner of museum personnel: the triumphant archaeologist, the grizzled guard, and especially the hapless junior officer. Fitzgerald's unerring eye for the foibles of human nature, her humor and sense of the absurd, are all wonderfully in evidence in this witty satire of the art world and its amusing jealousies.
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