The Egyptologist

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RALPH M. TRILIPUSH (Brit.) – Harvard-employed Egyptologist, MA and partial PhD from Oxford, author of Desire and Deceit in Ancient Egypt, heir to Trilipush Hall in Kent, during World War I served in counter-intelligence in Egypt and was wounded at Gallipoli, leading scholar of Atum-hadu

HAROLD FERRELL (Austral.) – private detective, memoirist

HOWARD CARTER (Brit.) – renowned Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun

THE FIFTH EARL OF CARNARVON (Brit.) – amateur Egyptologist and financial patron of Howard Carter

ATUM – Egyptian creator-god, created the next generation of gods by masturbating onto fertile soil

ATUM-HADU – “Atum-Is-Aroused”, widely debated final (?) king (?) of Egypt’s XIIIth Dynasty, named for the moment immediately prior to creation (see Atum), author (?) of widely debatedAdmonitions of Atum-hadu

CHESTER CRAWFORD FINNERAN (US) – “CCF”, owner of Finneran’s Finer Finery in Boston, patron of the Trilipush Expedition, soon-to-be father-in-law to Trilipush

MARGARET FINNERAN (US) – socialite, daughter to Chester, fiancée to Trilipush

MASTER OF LARGESSE – Atum-hadu’s advisor and treasurer, and Trilipush’s fond nickname for CCF

HUGO ST. JOHN MARLOWE (Brit.) – army Captain and Oxford graduate student of Egyptology, killed in the First World War, closest friend of Trilipush

JULIUS PADRAIG O’TOOLE (US) – investor in the Trilipush Expedition, owner of JPs speakeasy, godfather to Margaret Finneran

HEINZ KOVACS (US) – investor in the Trilipush Expedition, perpetually tormented by the US Attorney General and IRS

CLEMENT WEXLER (Brit.) – Oxford don of Egyptology, known for his skepticism

F. WRIGHT HARRIMAN (Scot.) – first translator of the Admonitions of Atum-hadu

JEAN-MICHEL VASSAL (Fr.) – second translator of the Admonitions of Atum-hadu

PAUL CALDWELL (Austral.) – amateur Egyptologist, circus performer, librarian, Communist agitator, corporal in the Australian Imperial Force, lost in the First World War

BARNABAS DAVIES (Brit.) – brewer, millionaire, former merchant sailor, epic philanderer

LAURENCE MACY III ( US) – nephew to Margaret Finneran and Cornelius Macy, family historian, correspondent, drafted as literary side-kick by Ferrell

BEVERLY QUINT (Brit.) – Oxford student, friend to Marlowe and Trilipush

BOYD AND EMMA HOYT (Austral.) – husband and wife, clown and poodle trainer, last owners of the Flipping Hoyt Brothers circus, Sydney

CATHERINE AND RONALD BARRY (Austral.) – brother and sister, schoolmaster and librarian, Bolshevik agitators, protectors of Paul Caldwell

CLAES TER BREUGGEN (Hol.) – Chair of Egyptology, Harvard University, employer of Trilipush

PIERRE LACAU (Fr.) – Director-General of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, overseer and licenser of all excavations in Egypt

AHMED (Egy.) – first foreman of the Trilipush Expedition

AMR (Egy.) – second foreman of the Trilipush Expedition