What Dudley Axminster brought out of Egypt, at the price of his life and a considerable fortune, was destined to play particular and unholy hob with the accepted scientific theories of a group of savants. Moreover, the weird mystery which literally floated in from the deep, will always go down in the annals of crime as quite unprecedented and quite without rival.Well, anything might come out of Egypt.And anything did.The unveiling of a mummy of an Egyptian princess sets the stage for a weird mystery. The Palgrave Mummy, by Florence Mae Pettee, was published in 1929.