Pyramids

''Look after the dead'', said the priests, ''and the dead will look after you.''

Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father.

He-d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin''s Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...