Sphinx

Name: Sphinx
Author: Robin Cook

1979 novel by Robin Cook

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Author: Robin Cook
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-07-02
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Released: 1979
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Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Language: English
Genre: thriller
Follows: Coma
Followed by: Brain

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Sphinx is a 1979 novel by Robin Cook. It follows a young American Egyptologist named Erica Baron, on a working vacation in Egypt, who stumbles into a dangerous vortex of intrigue after seeing an ancient Egyptian statue of Seti I in a Cairo market. Cook's third novel, it is one of the few not centered on medicine.

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SSphinx1981 · 1981 American adventure film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

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Narrative location: Egypt
Country of origin: United States
Title: Sphinx
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-07-02
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Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-07-21
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Derivative work: Sphinx

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