Download or read book The Curse of the Bronze Lamp written by John Dickson Carr and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1997-03-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen Loring thinks such tales are sheer poppycock. She takes the lamp back to England, she places it on the mantelpiece at Serven Hall, and she disappears, just as the seer said.