Book Overview
While riding home to lunch on his donkey, Fairclough of Customs is rudely unseated by shots fired from behind. The incident is but the first of a series of attacks seemingly aimed at public officials. Even Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police, barely escapes. Is a sinister campaign to undermine foreign rule under way? And who are "the men behind"? True, the Nationalist movement is rising after thirty years...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1590580524
ISBN13:9781590580523
Release Date:March 2003
Publisher:Poisoned Pen Press
Length:252 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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The Mamur Zapt Series
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Gentle, droll, English humor at its best. These stories combine the murder mystery with the politics and culture of Colonial life and the Middle Eastern mystique in cosmopolitan turn-of-the-century Cairo. These books can't be allowed to disappear off the shelves.
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