The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog - Softcover

Pearce, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006471099 ISBN 13: 9780006471097

Verlag: Collins Crime, 1991

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Praise for Michael Pearce:

‘Elegantly and wittily narrated, with a good plot, colourful characters and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Egypt of Cromer’s time’ The Times

‘Pearce is a natural novelist ... a vanished world comes alive’ Sunday Times

‘Impeccable historical detail and entertaining dialogue make enjoyable reading’ Sunday Telegraph

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A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, in which The Mamur Zapt races to prevent an explosion of religious violence in the Cairo of the 1900s.

Cairo in the 1900s. When the body of a dog is discovered in a Coptic tomb – a Muslim insult that could spark an explosion among the Christian community – the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo’s secret police, is called in to investigate.

Equally volatile is a command from an English Member of Parliament that the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, show the MP’s niece the sights of the city. When a dancing dervish is stabbed before the lady’s very eyes, Owen begins to uncover a plot to set Cairo’s ethnic communities at each other’s throats...

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• Verlag: Collins Crime
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0006471099
• ISBN 13: 9780006471097
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208