✍ Scribed by Michael Pearce
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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 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…
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