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"The Green Mummy" is a classic mystery novel by Fergus Hume (author of the blockbuster "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab"), published around 1908. The story follows young couple Archie Hope and Lucy Kendal, whose marriage depends on Archie financing a rare Incan mummy for Lucy's obsessive archaeologist stepfather. When the packing case arrives, Professor Braddock finds not the mummy but the dead body of his assistant Sidney Bolton. A classic whodunit with romance, betrayal, conspiracy, and numerous twists, featuring eccentric characters and a rumored treasure of emeralds hidden within the mummy.