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ISBN 10: 0002326973 ISBN 13: 9780002326971
Editorial: Collins Crime, 2000

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his fascination for language began. He later trained as a Russian interpreter but moved away from languages to follow an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas, and then as an administrator. Michael Pearce now lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books.

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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 heard of. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets, there is concern that this could be 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, Gertude Bell, or the irritating little arch-aeologist, 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, in his relations-ship with 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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Editorial
Collins Crime
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0002326973
ISBN 13 
9780002326971
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Número de páginas
224
Contacto del fabricante
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