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Loading... The Mamur Zapt and the donkey-vous (edition 1990)by Michael Pearce
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I liked this very much and always meant to find the rest of the series, but so far I have not. it is rather like the Amelia Peabody series without the archeology --set in Cairo in 1908. The detective is the head of the "political" side of the British police when Britain unofficially ruled Egypt. The tone s mildly humorous and the mystery is clever --an elderly Frenchman, nearly disabled by a stroke, vanished from the terrace of the famous Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, the center of European social life in the city at the time --and nobody seems t have seen him go. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo of the 1900s. Cairo in the 1900s. 'Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless,' Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin and Mr Colthorpe, kidnapped from the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel? Were these kidnappings intended as deliberately symbolic blows at the British? Owen had better unravel it quickly, or else... And where better to start from than the donkey-vous, Cairo's enterprising youths who hire out their donkeys for rides... No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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