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3 - Donkey-Vous: A Mamur Zapt Mystery

✍ Scribed by Michael Pearce

Book ID: 109206011
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 117 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1590580265

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✦ Synopsis

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 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�

Review

"Pearce's cultivated pen recreates a long-gone era with engaging wit, tracing colourful arabesqus of greed, history, and mystery." --The Times

About the Author

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the political and other tensions he draws on for his books.�He returned there later to teach and retains a human rights interest in the area. His career has followed the standard academic rake�s progress from teaching to writing to administration.�He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones.

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