Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet

Pearce, Michael

ISBN 10: 0953144623 / ISBN 13: 9780953144624

Published by Post Mortem Books, Sussex, 1998

About this Item

Post Mortem Books, 1998, signed limited edition. Cream cloth bound hardcover with gilt titles and decorations. This is number 62 of a limited edition, without jacket as issued, signed by the author. The book is in near fine, unread condition. A very attractive limited edition of the first Mamur Zapt novel.

Seller Inventory # 000668

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet
• Publisher: Post Mortem Books, Sussex
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0953144623
• ISBN 13: 9780953144624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions
  • Detective Fiction and Thrillers
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Fans of Elizabeth Peters will view Egypt through a different lens—but the real flavor of this 14-book series is Graham Greene or, given Pearce’s sense of irony, Eric Ambler....The Mamur Zapt, head of Cairo’s CID in the heydey of (the indirect) British rule, focused on political, not police, matters. With the bustling new century, the loosening of imperial ties, and the rise of nationalism, his was a busy office. The attempted assassination of a veteran politician raises the spectre of a major terrorist statement at the capital’s principal religious festival where the faithful celebrate the Return of the Holy Carpet from Mecca.Easily navigating multiple nationalities, three principal languages, and four competing legal systems, not to mention the intricacies of shadow and actual governments, Captain Owen, the Welsh incumbent, bolsters the Mamur Zapt’s office with the aid of a host of memorable characters.In his 1988 debut, Michael Pearce, who grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, “memorably navigates the swirling cultural and political cross-currents of his chosen period and place, bringing to an historian’s confidence the creative intelligence of a born novelist.” —John Coleman, Sunday Times

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.