The Egypt Game is a YA and children's novel by American author Zilpha Keatley Snyder, published in 1967. The story follows Melanie Ross, April Hall, and Melanie's four-year-old brother Marshall, as they begin playing in the deserted storage yard of A-Z Antiques, a shop run by a reclusive and frightening man known as the 'Professor'. The children invent the Egypt Game, which involves costumes and rituals from Ancient Egypt. Soon others have joined in. But after a little girl is found murdered, the children are kept inside and find it more difficult to play their game - especially after their oracle, connect to the god Thoth, starts sending them some unsettling messages. While it seems that the Professor may be a suspect in the murder, he saves April from being attacked by the real killer, and explains their game has kept him fascinated since they first started playing. A sequel, The Gypsy Game, was published in 1997.

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