The Mamur Zapt and the night of the dog

✍ Scribed by Michael Pearce

• Book ID: 100202518
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers;HarperCollinsPublishers
• Year: 1989;2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 369 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0007485026

✦ Synopsis

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...