A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, in which The Mamur Zapt races to prevent an explosion of religious violence in the Cairo of the 1900s. Cairo in the 1900s. When the body of a dog is discovered in a Coptic tomb - a Muslim insult that could spark an explosion among the Christian community - the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, is called in to investigate. Equally volatile is a command from an English Member of Parliament that the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, ...
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A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, in which The Mamur Zapt races to prevent an explosion of religious violence in the Cairo of the 1900s. Cairo in the 1900s. When the body of a dog is discovered in a Coptic tomb - a Muslim insult that could spark an explosion among the Christian community - the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, is called in to investigate. Equally volatile is a command from an English Member of Parliament that the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, show the MP's niece the sights of the city. When a dancing dervish is stabbed before the lady's very eyes, Owen begins to uncover a plot to set Cairo's ethnic communities at each other's throats...
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Good +/Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Ex-Library Red bds with gilt title to spine. light bump to spine ends. Usual library marks. first 3 pages almost detached. Text very good and clean. Price clipped dustjacket in clear protective sleeve with small rub to corners and chipping to spine ends. Lib sticker to bottom spine end.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Fine book in NF dust jacket, the latter with slight edgewear, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book appears unread. Author's second book in the Mamur Zapt series. 8vo 8"-9" tall. 184 pages. M2.
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Good in Good jacket. Book First U.S. edition, first printing, hardcover. 184 pages. Good with head of spine and top corners bumped in a good dust jacket with rubbing at the folds, edgewear at spine and corners and a 1/2" tear at top edge of rear panel. Protective mylar cover on jacket. Author's scarce second novel.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. Book First U.S. edition, first printing, hardcover. 184 pages. Near fine with tail of spine bumped, in a good dust jacket with rubbing at the folds, edgewear at spine and corners and a 1/2" tear at bottom edge of rear panel. Protective mylar cover on jacket.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book First U.S. edition, first printing, hardcover. 184 pages. Near fine unread with tail of spine and bottom corners bumped in a very good dust jacket with rubbing at the folds, edgewear at spine and corners and a 1/2" tear at top edge of rear panel. Protective mylar cover on jacket.
