Book about a trio captured by Muslims

In this book, a man, his friend, and his incorrigible, dishonest wife are captured by Muslims, taken to a caliphate as servant slaves, and his wife takes a boyfriend, sneaks him into a harem disguised as a woman, and she ends up being executed by strangulation.

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