The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

"What kind of a boat do you think this is?" said the eunuch indignantly when Captain Owen came aboard. Well, what sort of boat was it? After all, a young woman had drowned in the Nile, her body washed up on a sandbar. Apparently she had fallen off this boat.Owen, as Mamur Zapt, or head of British-ruled Cairo's secret police, deems it a potential crime. But when the poor girl's body suddenly vanishes from its resting place, he must investigate a crime that is as substantial as the Sphinx...and every bit as mystifying.Strange, he muses, that the girl would have plummeted off a boat when it was moored for the night in a river that was calm. What is even stranger is that the boat was in the hire of Prince Narouz, son of the Khedive, the nominal ruler of Egypt. Why had the prince commanded the dahabeeyab to cruise to Luxor in the first place? Certainly, he had no interest at all in antiquities. And what was an attractive and unwed young woman doing aboard the vessel after dark?Owen must mount a puzzling search for the truth that will take him from Cairo's sophisticated French-style cafes to the darkest recesses of its dingiest slums. Helped by his frightfully independent Egyptian mistress and a remarkable assortment of informants, he soon finds himself adrift in the seething waters of Edwardian Egyptian politics.

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Michael Pearce

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The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

Mysterious Pr · Tapa dura

234 págs.

Jan 1, 1994

The Girl in the Nile: A Mamur Zapt Mystery

Poisoned Pen Press · eBook

241 págs.

Sep 30, 2011

The Girl in the Nile

Poisoned Pen Press · Tapa blanda

240 págs.

Sep 30, 2011

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in Nile: A Gripping 1908 Historical Mystery of Egyptian Politics and Murder

HarperCollins · eBook

241 págs.

Oct 5, 2017

The Girl in the Nile

Poisoned Pen Press · eBook

241 págs.

Mar 30, 2017

Mamur Zapt and the Girl in Nile

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · Tapa blanda

226 págs.

Sep 18, 2017

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

Books On Tape · Audiolibro

Apr 1, 1998

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

Books on Tape · Audiolibro

Jan 1, 1998

Rare - Michael Pearce MAMUR ZAPT AND THE GIRL IN THE NILE First U.K. Edition SIGNED DJ [Hardcover] Michael Pearce

Generic · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1992

The Girl in the Nile: A Mamur Zapt Mystery

ReadHowYouWant · Tapa blanda

360 págs.

Jan 10, 2024

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

Collins Crime · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1992

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

Mysterious · Tapa blanda

Jan 1, 1994

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile

HarperCollins/The Crime Club · Tapa dura

Jan 1, 1991

The MAMUR ZAPT And The GIRL In The NILE.

The Mysterious Press, · Tapa dura

333 págs.

Jan 1, 1994

The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile [UNABRIDGED]

Recorded Books Inc. · Audiolibro

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