Other editions of book The Vandemark Mummy

A mummy has gone missing! It’s not a terribly valuable mummy, but its disappearance spells big trouble for Phineas and Althea’s father, who is the curator of a small collection of Egyptian antiquities bequeathed to the college where he works. A whispered phone call leads Phineas and Althea to the vandalized mummy without revealing the identity of the thief. Then someone far more important to Phineas than a fifteen-hundred-year-old mummy vanishes. In spite of what the police think, he knows his sister would not have run away, and he knows she’s in grave danger. But can he unravel the mystery in time to save her life?

"Pleasingly well written...Graced with a sound plot, a scary climax,and, above all, perceptive characterizations...A fine interweaving of fun and substance."SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNALAlthea and Phineas Hall are spending a boring summer with their father until a rich old man donates the mysterious Vandemark mummmy and other antiquities to the college where their father is a professor, with instructions that only he is to care for them. When something happens in the room where the valuables are kept, Phineas and Althea sense that there is danger in the air and that one wrong move could turn a summer mystery into murder....

This is is a mystery by a Newberry Medal-Winning Author, Cynthia Voigt. In the story, Althea and Phineas who live with their dad, a college professor, discover that something from the ancient world has the power to endanger their lives..The mysterious Vandemark mummy and other antiquities are donated to the college and this causes something possibly dangerous to happen in the room where the valuables are kept.