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The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous Michael Pearce

The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous By Michael Pearce

The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous by Michael Pearce


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A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo of the 1900s.

The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous Summary

The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous by Michael Pearce

A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo of the 1900s.

Cairo in the 1900s. `Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless,' Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin and Mr Colthorpe, kidnapped from the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel?

Were these kidnappings intended as deliberately symbolic blows at the British? Owen had better unravel it quickly, or else... And where better to start from than the donkey-vous, Cairo's enterprising youths who hire out their donkeys for rides...

The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous Reviews

`As charming a historical mystery as you'll find' Kirkus Reviews

`Pearce's cultivated pen recreates a long-gone era with engaging wit' Sunday Times

`Pearce summons up his vanished world with a finesse that's drab, fond and droll. Impeccably done' Literary Review

`A colourful arabesque of greed, history, and mystery' The Times

About Michael Pearce

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.

Additional information

GOR001417810
9780006471080
0006471080
The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous by Michael Pearce
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
1991-09-12
224
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