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Pearce,Michael

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

Mysterious Press, 1990

30,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1990
ISBN
0892964863
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Pearce,Michael
Editori
Mysterious Press
Edizione
1st US Edition.
Soggetto
EGYPT.CAIRO.KHEDIVE. MYSTERY FICTION MAMUR ZAPT
Descrizione
New
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

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."