Description"Quality fiction and real history make a great match, and Sarah Angleton\'s Gentleman of Misfortune offers the best of both.
Rarely more than a few breaths ahead of his enemies, Lyman struggles to keep his prize from slipping away as he tangles with grief, love, betrayal, and a growing sense of his own mortality..
Through four states, along the Erie Canal, and eventually to the doorstep of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Lyman exhibits his dusty companions before a curious public.
The showman\'s plan to amass his fortune displaying the stolen artifacts across the country becomes more complicated when one of his accomplices dies a suspicious death, causing Lyman and the man\'s beautiful widow to make a hasty escape from the city.
Enlisting the help of a crooked customs agent and a black market antiquities dealer, he assumes the identity of Michael Chandler, nephew of deceased Egyptologist Antonio Lebolo, and lays claim to the shipment.
A new opportunity arrives when a collection of eleven mummies and several papyri covered in indecipherable hieroglyphs are due to arrive in New York\'s South Street Seaport direct from the Valley of the Kings.
This is an engaging story with surprises on every page." -- Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Gunfight and Manson Spring 1833Gentleman swindler Lyman Moreau is accustomed to changing his identity to suit his schemes.
Description"Quality fiction and real history make a great match, and Sarah Angleton\'s Gentleman of Misfortune offers the best of both
