Items related to The Face in the Cemetery

Pearce, Michael The Face in the Cemetery ISBN 13: 9780002326988

The Face in the Cemetery - Hardcover

 
9780002326988: The Face in the Cemetery
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 

A classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in Egypt in the 1900s, in which the Mamur Zapt confronts the secrets of his past.

It is the beginning of the war and the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, British head of Cairo’s secret police, is called in to investigate a human corpse abandoned in a cat cemetery. Is the villagers’ talk of a mysterious Cat Woman mere superstitious nonsense, or something rather sinister?

The Mamur Zapt is preoccupied with missing guns and dubious ghaffirs, but the face in the cemetery refuses to go away. And Owen comes to realise that it poses questions that are not just professional but uncomfortably personal...

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

‘Probably the best in a consistently entertaining series ... Pearce makes serious comedy out of living history. His touch remains light; his dialogue effervescent. His characters, though, have acquired painful substance. The fresco that he assembles kicks like a chorus line; but this time with feeling’ Philip Oakes, Literary Review

Acclaim for Michael Pearce and the Mamur Zapt novels:

‘For contrast and sheer entertainment, Michael Pearce’s A Cold Touch of Ice is one of the best in his Mamur Zapt series... As always, his characters and the city itself are full of life and the dialogue... is excellent. Highly recommended’ Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

‘Pearce takes apart ancient history and reassembles it with beguiling wit and colour’ John Coleman, Sunday Times

‘Marvellously convoluted... Dryly and deeply funny’
Philip Oakes, Literary Review

From the Back Cover:

Egypt, 1914. It is the beginning of the war and Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of Cairo’s Secret Police, is unhappily rounding up enemy aliens. But nationality is a slippery thing in cosmopolitan Egypt. Who counts as German? And whose is the face in the cemetery?

Owen would prefer to have to answer neither of these questions. He is preoccupied with missing guns (missing? in war time?) and dubious ghaffirs. Villages usually pick Dogberry-type simpletons as their watchmen. But what are these toughs doing here? And this heavily-armed, thumb-sucking girl?

The face in the cat cemetery, though, refuses to go away and Owen comes to realise that it poses questions which are not just professional but also uncomfortably personal.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherCollins Crime
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 0002326981
  • ISBN 13 9780002326988
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages224
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780008259334: THE FACE IN THE CEMETERY: Book 14

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780008259334
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2017
Softcover

  • 9781590582961: The Face in the Cemetery: A Mamur Zapt Mystery: 14 (Mamur Zapt Mysteries)

    Poison..., 2013
    Softcover

  • 9781590580707: The Face In The Cemetery: A Mamur Zapt Mystery

    Poison..., 2004
    Hardcover

  • 9780006514732: The Face in the Cemetery

    Harper..., 2002
    Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Seller Image

Pearce, Michael
ISBN 10: 0002326981 ISBN 13: 9780002326988
New Hardcover First Edition Quantity: 1
Seller:
Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA
(St. Catharines, ON, Canada)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of the fourteenth novel in the Mamur Zapt series. In fine / fine unread condition. Seller Inventory # 17340

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 8.16
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
From Canada to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds