The Panther & the Pyramid Book

[ OK, I am out of exclamation points by now, but will bravely continue - in the middle of the book everyone treks off to the desert to hunt some mythical treasure for no earthly reason I could see and heroine gets mistaken for a genie and hero has to protect his virtue from lustful tribesmen (clearly, deserts of Sahara = Turkish baths in 1970s San Francisco as far as this author is concerned), but decides to give it up when it's the choice between him or the heroine. Oh, and they run into heroine's father who gets forgiven by clearly by now driven insane (by either heatstroke or the author) hero before falling off a cliff. Oh, and in the middle of all this lunacy, somehow hero manages to midwife (midhusband?) the birth of his brother's child. (hide spoiler)]