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A classic historical mystery from award-winning Michael Pearce, in which the body of a young woman washes up in the Nile and the Mamur Zapt is drawn into the seedy world of Egyptian politics. Egypt, 1908. A young woman has drowned in the Nile, her body washed up on a sandbar. Apparently she had fallen off a boat. Owen, as Mamur Zapt, Britsh head of Cairo's secret police, deems it a potential crime. But when the poor girl's body suddenly vanishes from its resting place, Owen begins a puzzling search for the truth that will take him from Cairo's sophisticated cafes through its dingiest slums - and into the seething waters of Egyptian politics.
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About the Author
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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Called away from a routine arms search to examine the corpse of a young woman who's fallen from a pleasure boat moored in the Nile, Gareth Cadwallader Owen, the Mamur Zapt of 1909 Cairo (The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind, 1993, etc.), finds that the body has already disappeared. The boat's owner, minor royal scion Prince Narouz, disclaims any knowledge of the victim's identity--she was just a party girl invited to supplement his harem, he blandly assures Owen--and nobody can explain who she was or why she would have fallen from a stationary boat in a calm river. Starting with a few trivial details about the dead woman's costume, though, Owen is able to find out that she was the clinging companion first of an influential journalist and then of a rising sculptor before Narouz met her at the opening-night party for a new play. This alarms his superiors, who are afraid his investigation will interfere with an all-important agreement ever-pending between Narouz's father and the occupying British. This, in turn, infuriates his mistress, Zeinab, who thinks he's going to soft-pedal the investigation. By the time the corpse resurfaces--this time in a most embarrassing place--Owen is almost ready to hide it again himself. Pearce's pace is as deliberate and gravely amused as ever, but his uncharacteristic focus on a central mystery comes at a high price: Lacking the local color of Owen's four earlier adventures, this one is his least distinctively charming and amusing to date. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherCollins Crime
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0002323680
- ISBN 13 9780002323680
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