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"Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless," so Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's Political CID under British Rule, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin, kidnapped from taking tea on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel? How has Mr. Colthorpe Hartley also disappeared? No one has actually seen either victim vanish.... Are these ordinary crimes? Are they intended as deliberately symbolic blows at the British? Or are they just a means of show more discouraging tourism? Owen had better unravel it quickly, or else.... And where better to start from than the donkey-vous beneath the terrace, home of Cairo's humble but enterprising youths who hire out their donkeys for photographs and rides.... Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. show less
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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.
Read this book aloud with my wife. We both realy enjoyed it. Wish there was an appendix that explains who is who and what there place in Egyptian society is.
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Michael Pearce lives in London and is the author of fourteen Mamur Zapt novels, including The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt, for which he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's prestigious Last Laugh Award. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous
- Original title
- The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous
- Original publication date
- 1990-03-05
- People/Characters
- Gareth Owen; Colthorpe Hartley; Monsieur Moulin
- Important places
- Cairo, Egypt; Egypt
- First words
- Owen arrived at the hotel shortly afterward.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Not quite as it was before," said Owen. "Or so I hope."
- Original language
- English
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- 116
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.06)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
