The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog

by Michael Pearce (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $13.76

  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...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.17

  Disturbances between Copts and Moslems in Cairo in 1909 means trouble for Mamur Zapt, British head of the Secret Police. Jane Postlethwaite, niece of a visiting MP, means trouble of a different kind. Captain Owen is fortunately - and delightfully - equal to both. The author has written Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet .