A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo of the 1900s. Cairo in the 1900s. 'Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless,' Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's secret police, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin and Mr Colthorpe, kidnapped from the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel? Were these kidnappings intended as deliberately symbolic blows at the British? Owen had better unravel it quickly, or else. And where better to start from than the donkey-vous, Cairo's enterprising youths who hire out their donkeys for rides. Gold title * Reissued with fifteen other classic Michael Pearce murder mysteries * Pearce is a past winner of the CWA's Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel of the year * Michael Pearce is a favourite with the reviewers * Witty and erudite crime novels set in Edwardian Egypt Competition: Crime At Christmas; The Missing One; The Missing Ones; The Missing; Crime At Christmas. Jeffrey Archer;Agatha Christie; Alexander McCall Smith; Andrew Taylor; M. C.

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