More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham published 1949 When I did my post on fortune-tellingCan you Predict which Books I will Feature? - Fortune Tellers - blogfriend Lucy had suggestions, including Margery Allingham’s More Work for the Undertaker. It’s a while since I’d last read it, but I had no memory of fortune-telling featuring. When I re-read, I found that it is most certainly there, and plays an important role in the plot, but it is very late on in the book – I was almost giving up. But there it is: ‘That’s the gal all right. Call’s herself Pharaoh’s Daughter. She gives readings for a tanner a time and we never bothered her under the Act because she seemed so harmless.’ She is also referred to as Psychic Phoeb. And so – oh joy – I can use a great favourite picture: The Pythoness, who is actually the Pharaoh’s Daughter from the story of Joseph in the Bible. Pauline Frederick - Potiphar's wife (LOC) | Bain News Servic… | Flickr However - I didn’t enjoy this book nearly…
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