{"first_publish_date": "April 1997", "title": "The Curse of the Bronze Lamp", "covers": [542664, 6988021, 6923596], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "IN the drawing-room of a suite at the Continental-Savoy Hotel, Cairo, a girl and a young man waited for the telephone to ring."}, "key": "/works/OL3020839W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL465130A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "IN the drawing-room of a suite at the Continental-Savoy Hotel, Cairo, a girl and a young man waited for the telephone to ring."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional", "Loring, helen, lady (fictitious character), fiction", "England, fiction", "Merrivale, henry, sir (fictitious character), fiction", "Sir Merrivale, Henry (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Blessing and cursing", "Romance Ingles"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "An ancient Egyptian lamp carries a curse -- or is there something more sinister behind a series of mysterious deaths? Sir Henry Merrivale becomes involved with the lamp's current owner, the daughter of one of the dead men."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T01:33:27.156225"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-12-18T17:13:41.208864"}}