The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt (Mamur Zapt, Book 6)

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Winner of the CWA Last Laugh Award, an irresistible historical mystery in which the Mamur Zapt investigates the illegal trade of antiquities in the Cairo of the 1900s.
Cairo, 1908. Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt or head of Cairos Secret Police, turns his attention to the illegal trade of antiquities when Miss Skinner arrives. Shes a woman with the habit of asking awkward questions. But what is she doing looking for crocodiles And mummified ones at that

Owens new brief is to see that Egypts priceless treasures stay in Egypt. But when Miss Skinner narrowly escapes falling under a conveyance, Owen must labour to thwart killers and face an even graver problem: whether to ask the pasha's lovely daughter to marry him.

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Sheer fun The Times

Irresistible fun Time Out

The Mamur Zapts sly, irreverent humour continues to refresh the parts others seldom reach Observer

Enjoyable original and charming Independent

Author Bio

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the various tensions he draws on for his award-winning Mamur Zapt series. He returned there to teach, and retains a human rights interest in the area. In between whiles his career has followed the standard academic rakes progress from teaching to writing to editing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones. He lives in London. He is now a full-time writer. He was awarded the Crime Writers Associations prestigious Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel of the year for the Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt. Michael Pearce is also the author of the crime novels featuring Dmitri Kameron, set in Tsarist Russia of the 1890s.