The Donkey-Vous: A Mamur Zapt Mystery - Softcover

Pearce, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590580265 ISBN 13: 9781590580264

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr, 2002

Synopsis

"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.

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Review:

‘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 the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1590580265
• ISBN 13: 9781590580264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200