Michael Pearce wuchs im damaligen Anglo-Ägyptischen Sudan auf und kehrte später dorthin zurück, um zu unterrichten, wobei er ein lebenslanges Interesse an den Menschenrechten in der Region bewahrte. Nach seinem kürzlichen Rückzug aus seiner akademischen Laufbahn widmet er sich nun ganz dem Schreiben.
Englischer Autor, geb. 1933. - Im Ägypten des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts wird ein Leichenfund Auslöser einer grotesken Auseinandersetzung, in welcher der schwelende Konflikte zwischen konkurrierenden einheimischen Parteien und diversen Kolonialmächten einen willkommenen Anlass für offene Machtkämpfe bietet. Zwischen den Fronten bemüht sich ein besonnener britischer Kriminalist um die Klärung der wahren Ereignisse ¿
Kairo im Jahre 1908: Ein französischer Tourist verschwindet am hellichten Tag von der Terrasse eines Luxushotels. Der Mamur Zapt Gareth Owen, Chef der britischen Geheimpolizei, soll den politisch brisanten Fall aufklären. doch es scheint keine Zeugen für die Entführung zu geben - oder zumindest will niemand etwas sagen. Was hat der blinde Schlangenbeschwörer bemerkt? Und wie ist die britische Familie Colthorpe Hartley in den Fall verwickelt? Auf der Such nach der Lösung muß der Mamur Zapt auch viel gesellschaftliches Fingerspitzengefühl beweisen ..
"Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past - one which connects with practices long thought dead. At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor - and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is called in to investigate. An Englishman squeezed between the demands of a world about to disappear and the emerging needs of a world about to come, the Mamur Zapt finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt."--Back cover.
In this classic mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, a powerful politician is murdered in Cairo in the 1900s and the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate Cairo, 1910. The end of the boom and everyone seems to have money troubles. Then one day a civil servant dies at his desk. Was it pressure of work or something nastier? The whiff of corruption is in the air, with even Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, under suspicion... Owen's investigation takes him to the heart of a sinister organization. But will he be up to taking them on? And will he be in time to stop the Camel of Destruction running through the city?
From the award-winning Michael Pearce comes an engrossing murder mystery set in the Cairo of the 1900s. After a series of attacks on public officials, the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate. Cairo in the 1900s. While riding home, Fairclough of Customs is shot at from behind. It is the first of many similar attacks - all seemingly aimed at public officials. The Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, is told to catch the killer - and quickly. His efforts to do so take him into Cairo's student quarter and out to a remote rural estate. And require him to handle a fading Pasha and a dangerous gypsy girl - whose claims he has to balance against those of his fiery Egyptian mistress.
Why was the body put on the line? Did someone want to halt the progress of the New Electric Railway out from Cairo to the City of Pleasure being built in the suburbs? Old Egypt is pitted against New and in the middle is the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police
A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate. In 1908, the city of Cairo lives - and dies - by its cafe culture. But for restaurant businesses, the protection rackets pose a problem. And the city's cafes are experiencing a sudden upsurge in threats from various gangs. When one cafe proprietor is attacked, his legs broken for noncompliance, everyone is worried. Then the Russian Charge files a complaint - the Mingrelians may be targeting a Russian Grand Duke. Now the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Secret Police, must find a way to prevent an international incident...
Winner of the CWA Last Laugh Award, an irresistible historical mystery in which the Mamur Zapt investigates the illegal trade of antiquities in the Cairo of the 1900s. Cairo, 1908. Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt or head of Cairo's Secret Police, turns his attention to the illegal trade of antiquities when Miss Skinner arrives. She's a woman with the habit of asking awkward questions. But what is she doing looking for crocodiles? And mummified ones at that? Owen's new brief is to see that Egypt's priceless treasures stay in Egypt. But when Miss Skinner narrowly escapes falling under a conveyance, Owen must labour to thwart killers and face an even graver problem: whether to ask the pasha's lovely daughter to marry him....