The action of the detective story "Quarantine with Anubis" takes place in 2020 in a small Egyptian hotel on the banks of the Nile, in Luxor. Philology expert Victoria Bersenyeva and her nephew Alexander accidentally get stuck here because of the outbreak of the covid epidemic. Hotel guests from different countries would hardly have become good friends in less dramatic circumstances. Now they are united not only by quarantine, but also by a mysterious corpse found on the territory of the hotel. Who is this man? Is his death related to the excavation trip that the guests made on the eve of the quarantine? And who in the 21st century will seriously talk about the "curse of the tomb" and the theft of ancient Egyptian treasures? Everyone has seen similar stories in literature and cinema more than once. Or maybe that's the whole point –the literary-centricity of our thinking?