A classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce's award-winning series, set in Egypt in the 1900s, in which the Mamur Zapt confronts the secrets of his past.
It is the beginning of the war and the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, British head of Cairo's secret police, is called in to investigate a human corpse abandoned in a cat cemetery. Is the villagers' talk of a mysterious Cat Woman mere superstitious nonsense, or something rather sinister?
The Mamur Zapt is preoccupied with missing guns and dubious ghaffirs, but the face in the cemetery refuses to go away. And Owen comes to realise that it poses questions that are not just professional but uncomfortably personal...
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Probably the best in a consistently entertaining series' Literary Review
'Highly recommended' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'Pearce takes apart ancient history and reassembles it with beguiling wit and colour' Sunday Times
'Marvellously convoluted... Dryly and deeply funny' Literary Review
'Sheer fun' The Times
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Höhe: 195 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-00-825933-4 (9780008259334)
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Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his fascination for language began. He later trained as a Russian interpreter but moved away from languages to follow an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas, and then as an administrator. Michael Pearce now lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books.
