Praise for Michael Pearce:
‘Pearce takes apart ancient history and reassembles it with beguiling wit and colour’ Sunday Times
‘Marvellously convoluted... Dryly and deeply funny’ Literary Review
‘Highly recommended’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Pearce’s secret policeman is implausibly likeable’ TLS
‘This is high comedy from a practiced hand. The control is effortless, the wit as sharp as in Death of an Effendi’ The Times
In this classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the murder of an Italian man in the backstreets of Cairo.
The world is changing around the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo’s Secret Police. It’s 1912 and there’s a war on that no one’s ever heard of. A man is killed. Is this an attempt at – or the beginning, perhaps – of some kind of ethnic cleansing? ‘One of us’ Morelli may have been, but was he ‘one of us’ enough? And were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it? Gareth Owen – the Mamur Zapt – has to find out fast.
And then, as external pressures crowd in, there are other difficult questions. What is Trudi von Ramsberg really doing in Cairo? Not to mention that other noted traveller, Gertrude Bell, or the irritating little archaeologist, T. E. Lawrence? And why has the post of Khedive’s Librarian suddenly become so important?
Owen is just the man to solve these problems. He is less successful, though, with his relationship to Zeinab, especially now that she’s approaching thirty.
As Cromer’s Egypt gives way to Kitchener’s Egypt, Morelli is not the only one who has problems over where his allegiance lies. Maybe the solution is for Owen to go to Zanzibar...
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