Thank you for your interest in "Moon Song Featuring Cleopatra and the Pyramids"! In this humorous, suspenseful and sometimes touching novel, a good-natured college student recounts how he and his unusual friends created an unlikely and unconventional jazz band to help a failing Chinese restaurant. Complicating things were a vampire-like music professor, a set of identically-eccentric triplet heiresses, an adventurous transportation mogul, and--above all--a mysterious girl from an unknown country whose motives were every bit as intriguing and as puzzling as her accent. The settings included a World's Fair jazz festival, a Polynesian restaurant, an exclusive party at a mountain-top mansion, and a giant rural gully, where unexpected danger lurked. Robert Carroll Richardson has been a television writer/producer/director, a music conductor, a teacher and the recipient of several art awards.