Contents Cover Title Page WAKE UP! WAKE UUUUUUUUUUP! MY WALLET BLEEDS I FIRED THEM ALL! GERONIMO, DO THIS! GERONIMO, DO THAT! GOOD LUCK! CURDLE ME SOUR!!! HOW DO YOU DO? I’M DANIEL E. DEADFUR! FROZEN WITH FEAR! PROFESSOR ALRAT SPITFUR OH, WHAT A DAY! WHAT A SMELL, WHAT A STENCH, WHAT A STINK! THE EYE OF RA THE SECRET OF THE PYRAMIDS THE PHARAOH’S CURSE BASTET, THE CAT GODDESS INVENTION? WHAT INVENTION? A FLOATING PIECE OF DYNAMITE PSSST, PSSSSSSST… HEY, STILTON! BLUE CHEESE SHAKES AND TRIPLE CHEDDAR BURGERS FRIENDS TOGETHER! MICE FOREVER! I’M SUCH A GENIUS! WHO’S PAYING??? CROCODILE TEARS AND SALAMANDER SLIME WE’LL MAKE MEGABUCKS! GRANDFATHER AGAIN??? About the Author Maps More Fabumouse Adventures Copyright Copyright No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. GERONIMO STILTON names, characters and related indicia are copyright, trademark and exclusive property of Edizioni Piemme S.p.A. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2000 by Edizioni Piemme S.p.A., via del Carmine 5, 15033 Casale Monferrato (AL), Italia. English translation © 2004 by Edizioni Piemme S.p.A. Published by Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. Text by Geronimo Stilton Illustrations by Matt Wolf Graphics by Merenguita Gingermouse, Angela Simone, and Benedetta Galante Special thanks to Kathryn Cristaldi Cover design by Ursula Albano Interior layout by Kay Petronio First printing, February 2004. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher. e-ISBN: 978-0-545-39157-3