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Libros antiguos y modernos

Pearce,Michael

Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous : A Suspense Tale of Old Cairo

Mysterious Press, 1990

30,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1990
ISBN
0892964863
Lugar de impresión
New York
Autor
Pearce,Michael
Editores
Mysterious Press
Edición
1st US Edition.
Materia
EGYPT.CAIRO.KHEDIVE. MYSTERY FICTION MAMUR ZAPT
Descripción
New
Descripción
H
Sobrecubierta
Conservación
Nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Copia autógrafa
No
Primera edición

Descripción

It is 1908 in British-ruled Cairo, and a wealthy Frenchman has vanished from the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel. Police Captain Cadwallader Owen, known as the Mamur Zapt, expects the case will be routine; Shepheard's is, after all, the social center of this most bustling city. Yet, oddly enough, witnesses are conspicuously absent. When an inebriated Britisher is spirited off, again in full view of the hotel's teatime throng, Owen begins to suspect a plot. Is it a sinister campaign to assault British prestige? Or to destroy the tourist trade? Again, no one seems to know anything. Not Owen's beautiful Egyptian lady friend. Not the street side snake charmer. Not even those sharp-eyed donkey rental boys who are forever gabbing at their "donkey-vous" near Shepheard's crowded terrace. And that's peculiar, thinks Owen: they always know everything. "Smell the Spices,hear the hubbub,savour the wry,impartial humour."