Donkey-Vous: A Mamur Zapt Mystery: 3 (Mamur Zapt Mysteries) - Softcover

Pearce, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464201358 ISBN 13: 9781464201356

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2013

Synopsis

Praise for The Donkey-Vous... "Pearce hits his stride with this third tale of Gareth Cadwallader Owen, the Mamur Zapt of the Anglo-Egyptian political police." -Kirkus Reviews "Pearce's cultivated pen recreates a long-gone era with engaging wit, tracing a colourful arabesque of greed, history, and mystery." -The [London] Times "Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless," Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's Political CID under British Rule, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin, kidnapped while taking tea on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel? How has Mr. Colthorpe Hartley also disappeared? No one actually saw either victim vanish. Are these ordinary crimes? Are they intended as deliberately symbolic blows at the British? Or are they just a means of discouraging tourism? Owen had better unravel it quickly or else. And where better to start than with the donkey-vous beneath the terrace, home of Cairo's humble but enterprising youths who hire out their donkeys for photographs and rides. Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He trained as a Russian interpreter but later moved to an academic career. He now lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books.

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Review:

"Pearce's cultivated pen recreates a long-gone era with engaging wit, tracing colourful arabesqus of greed, history, and mystery." --"The Times"

-Pearce's cultivated pen recreates a long-gone era with engaging wit, tracing colourful arabesqus of greed, history, and mystery.- --The Times

About the Author:

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the political and other tensions he draws on for his books. He returned there later to teach and retains a human rights interest in the area. His career has followed the standard academic rake's progress from teaching to writing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1464201358
• ISBN 13: 9781464201356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240