The Girl in the Nile (Mamur Zapt Mysteries)

by Michael Pearce (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.47

  1909 Egypt: Captain Gareth Owen, Head of the Cairo Secret Police, has to ask, Where's the body? The girl, perhaps a woman of ill repute, was lost overboard, and later glimpsed lying on a sand bank in the Nile. Then she vanished.

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.47

  A classic historical mystery from award-winning Michael Pearce, in which the body of a young woman washes up in the Nile and the Mamur Zapt is drawn into the seedy world of Egyptian politics.

  Egypt, 1908. A young woman has drowned in the Nile, her body washed up on a sandbar. Apparently she had fallen off a boat. Owen, as Mamur Zapt, Britsh head of Cairo's secret police, deems it a potential crime.

  But when the poor girl's body suddenly vanishes from its resting place, Owen begins a puzzling search for the truth that will take him from Cairo's sophisticated cafes through its dingiest slums - and into the seething waters of Egyptian politics.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $40.58

  A classic historical mystery from award-winning Michael Pearce, in which the body of a young woman washes up in the Nile and the Mamur Zapt is drawn into the seedy world of Egyptian politics.

  Egypt, 1908. A young woman has drowned in the Nile, her body washed up on a sandbar. Apparently she had fallen off a boat. Owen, as Mamur Zapt, Britsh head of Cairo's secret police, deems it a potential crime.

  But when the poor girl's body suddenly vanishes from its resting place, Owen begins a puzzling search for the truth that will take him from Cairo's sophisticated cafes through its dingiest slums - and into the seething waters of Egyptian politics.