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    The Mummy Wore Combat Boots
    The Mummy Wore Combat Boots
    The Mummy Wore Combat Boots
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    The Mummy Wore Combat Boots

    By Elise Abram

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    The Sandy Hook School shooting, the Colorado movie theatre massacre…was online gaming to blame?

    Psychologists believe that engaging in violent virtual gaming desensitises the player and dehumanises opponents. When the division between what is real and what is virtual becomes unclear, the results can be catastrophic.

    When forensic anthropologist Palmer Richardson is called to investigate an uncatalogued sarcophagus found in storage at the Royal Ontario Museum, he has his work cut out for him. Upon investigation, he discovers the mummy inside is that of a teenage boy and involves Detective Constable Michael Crestwood of the Metropolitan Toronto Police.

    Their investigation delves into the world of online gaming, where losing health points in a skirmish could have serious implications for a player's life in the real world.

    Inspired by real-life headlines, THE MUMMY WORE COMBAT BOOTS highlights the growing divide between children who live their lives immersed in a digital culture and the adults tasked with raising them who live in the real world. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElise Abram
    Release dateNov 18, 2017
    ISBN9781988843087
    The Mummy Wore Combat Boots
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    Elise Abram

    Elise is a retired high school teacher of English and Computer Studies, former archaeologist, and current author, editor, freelance writer, avid reader of literary and science fiction, and student of the human condition. She has been writing for as long as she can remember. Over the years, writing has become as essential to her as eating, sleeping, or breathing.  Elise is best known as an urban fantasy and young adult novelist, but her writing interests are diverse. She has published everything from science fiction, horror and the paranormal, and contemporary fiction and police procedurals for all ages. She has also published five children’s picture books.

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      The Mummy Wore Combat Boots - Elise Abram

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      THE MUMMY WORE COMBAT Boots

      Copyright © 2012  by Elise Abram

      Copyright © 2014  by Elise Abram

      Copyright © 2017  by Elise Abram

      All rights reserved.

      Published by EMSA Publishing 2017

      Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine or journal.

      The final approval for this literary material is granted by the author.

      Third printing

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and coincidental.

      Printing History

      First Edition: October 2012

      Second Edition: August 2014 with Throwaway Child

      Third Edition: August 2017

      PUBLISHED BY EMSA PUBLISHING

      http://emsapublishing.com

      The Mummy Wore Combat Boots is printed in Georgia.

      Credits: Cover font: Norse by Joël Carrouché

      Interior font: Georgia

      Cover art: Ancient stone carved Egyptian hieroglyphs in Egypt ID 149030102 ©Przemyslaw Skibinski | Shutterstock.com

      Cover design: Elise Abram

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      1

      MUMMIES ARE THE STUFF of legends.  The ancient Egyptians practiced the art of mummification in order to preserve the body for the afterlife.  The Victorians were fascinated by them and hosted mummy unwrapping parties. For these events, mummies were shipped to England and literally unwrapped, so the elite might marvel at the remains.  The obsession with all things Egyptian abroad led to the creation of a mummy trade in Egypt. To fuel the demand for this morbid industry, ordinary graves were robbed, the poor unfortunates made into pharonic knockoffs in order to turn a fast buck with unsuspecting tourists. 

      If I were there, I like to think I would have known.  That they were fakes, I mean.  My name is Palmer Richardson.  I teach archaeology at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.  My specialty is forensic anthropology.  I'm like those guys you see on television who work alongside the police to identify murder victims, especially when all that's left are the bones.  Virtually everything a person does in life leaves its mark on the bones.  Things like sex, age, diet, physical activity—it's all there, written in the bones.  The trick is in learning how to read the signs. 

      I was contacted by Suzanne Pascoe, the Egyptology curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, when several unidentified mummies turned up during its most recent revitalization.  The ROM's undergone many renovations since

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