Praise for The Mamur Zapt & The Return of the Carpet... "Pearce depicts the intricate politics and social mores among the various Egyptian societies and factions to provide authentic background for an outstandingly well-wrought and satisfying mystery." -Publishers Weekly "Rich with elements that paint a vivid portrait of Egyptian life and politics....this historical mystery/thriller is hard to put down." -The Historical Novels Review The Mamur Zapt, head of Cairo's CID in the heyday of British rule, focused on political, not police, matters. With the bustling new century, the loosening of imperial ties, and the rise of nationalism, his was a busy office. The attempted assassination of a veteran politician raises the spectre of a major terrorist statement at the capital's principal religious festival where the faithful celebrate the Return of the Holy Carpet from Mecca. Easily navigating multiple nationalities, three principal languages, and four competing legal systems, not to mention the intricacies of shadow and actual governments, Captain Owen, the Welsh incumbent, bolsters the Mamur Zapt's office with the aid of a host of memorable characters. 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. Pearce has authored 16 books in the Mamur Zapt series as well as several other novels.

The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet

Pearce,Michael

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Collins Crime

"Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless," so Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's Political CID under British Rule, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin, kidnapped from taking tea on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel? How has Mr. Colthorpe Hartley also disappeared. No one has actually seen 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 from than the donkey-vous beneath the terrace, home of Cairo's humble but enterprising youths who hire out their donkeys for photographs and rides... Follow the Mamur Zapt's career through The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet and The Night of the Dog, both republished by Poisoned Pen Press.

The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous

Collins Crime Club

There is nothing new about terrorist bomb attacks, but when they occurred in Edwardian Cairo they became the concern of Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt, moving between different worlds, different women, and devious characters before unmasking the culprits.

The Mamur Zapt and the men behind

Collins

In his sixth outing, Captain Gareth Owen returns to Egypt to protect the niece of a U.S. president, whose crusade against Egyptian exporters of priceless antiquities nearly lands her under the Mamur Zapt Express.

The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt

Cairo, 1910. The end of the boom and everyone seems to have money troubles. Then one day a civil servant dies at his desk. Was it pressure of work or something nastier? The whiff of corruption is in the air, with even Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, under suspicion... Owen's investigation takes him to the heart of a sinister organization. But will he be up to taking them on? And will he be in time to stop the Camel of Destruction running through the city?

Mamur Zapt and the Camel of Destruction

Mystery

Collins / HarperCollins

A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate. In 1908, the city of Cairo lives - and dies - by its cafe culture. But for restaurant businesses, the protection rackets pose a problem. And the city's cafes are experiencing a sudden upsurge in threats from various gangs. When one cafe proprietor is attacked, his legs broken for noncompliance, everyone is worried. Then the Russian Charge files a complaint - the Mingrelians may be targeting a Russian Grand Duke. Now the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Secret Police, must find a way to prevent an international incident...

The Mingrelian Conspiracy (A Mamur Zapt Mystery)

Harpercollins

From twbooks:Dimitri Kameron is a young lawyer with some status, if lowly, and certainly not as lowly as the poor and oppressed who can have noticed little change in their lot after the Communists took over. The Russia evoked by Michael Pearce in this enjoyable novel is a grim place where corruption is rife. To survive one must fawn and lie and cheat. Dimitri's superior tells him that the second rule of bureaucracy is "make sure that responsibility lies elsewhere". Dimitri is fully aware of that. He is a survivor and "bright" in the view of his superior.He needs all his "brightness" to survive when he is given the unenviable task of finding Anna Semeonova, a beautiful and well-connected young woman who has mysteriously disappeared from the Court House in Kursk where Dimitri is based.Dimitri's journey in search of Anna takes him several months and many hundreds of miles into Siberia. Even when he reaches the camp where she is imprisoned his task is not over. He is obstructed by minor officials at every turn and he begins to wonder whether there is a sinister cover-up. He is forced to mingle with the prisoners and to seek the help of the Molokans or Milk-Drinkers. This is a conservative sect which sprang up in the seventeenth century and is noted for its adherence to the drinking of milk.   They are in Anna's words "good" people,  very special people who are against "all violence, whether it is the stupid, mindless violence of the criminals or the kind of violence that the Government uses all the time" Moreover they have "to bear  witness" and when Anna becomes one of them Dimitri seeks her help to expose a massacre of prisoners.Dimitri and the Milk-Drinkers gives a convincing picture of life in Russia and of the oppressive Tzarist legal regime which Dimitri is forced to circumvent in order to survive. It is also very funny. A most promising precursor of a series.

Dmitri and the Milk Drinkers

For millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nile. Its annual floods fertilize the land. By the time Britain extends its dominion over Egypt, the Cairo Barrage is the key to control, its name taken from the French term meaning a dam or irrigation channel designed to increase a river's depth or to divert its flow.An attempt to blow up the Manufiyah regulator in the Barrage is not a petty matter. Gareth Owen, The Mamur Zapt, Chief of Cairo's Secret Police, is hurriedly summoned. He hasn't a clue what a regulator is. Nor can he identify the mysterious Lizard Man who seems to have a grudge against the whole Egyptian irrigation system. But he does know that the ceremonial cutting of the temporary dam thrown up each year across the mouth of the Khalig Canal restarts the whole irrigation cycle, allowing water to pour through the canal and signal the opening of dams all across the land. The cut will require policing. Especially as it is going to be the last cut before the canal is filled in.While this modernization will wipe out a health hazard, the Cairenes love the party that goes with the cut. They are less than happy with the dam. Things grow worse when a young woman's body is discovered at the site. Owen has to say it's extremely embarrassing. Is this the traditional ritual sacrifice? Or a sign of sabotage? A diversion? Or just plain murder?

The Last Cut (A Mamur Zapt Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady (Collins crime)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

<p>Shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel, this is an engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, featuring the inimitable Mamur Zapt.Cairo, 1909. The murder capital of the world, where deaths are two a piastre. But the death of an effendi That is something different. Effendis the Egyptian elite are important. Especially if in a country ruled by foreigners they happen to be foreign. Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, is called in to investigate. But is he the right man to be investigating In some countries, if someone goes for a walk or a boat ride with the Head of the Secret Police and doesnt come back, its best not to ask questions. And powerful people might have preferred Tvardovsky dead. As the maverick financier said, before going on the shooting party, there were still crocodiles in Egypt. Of all kinds. And perhaps the place to look for them was Crocodilopolis, the ancient City of the Crocodiles, where the financiers were to hold their meeting. It is when the crocodiles start co-operating, said Tvardovsky, that you really have to watch out</p>

Death of an Effendi (A Mamur Zapt Mystery)

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