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  • Mamur Zapt & the Return of the Carpet

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 1 - Mamur Zapt Mysteries
    The Mamur Zapt, head of Cairo's CID in the heyday of (the indirect) 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 ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Face in the Cemetery

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 14 - Mamur Zapt Mysteries
    Egypt, 1914. The outbreak of war in Europe casts ripples even in Cairo. Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is given the task of rounding up enemy aliens. But determining who counts as a German proves contentious.And then there's the face in the cemetery. Who disturbed the mummified remains of cats by placing a human corpse among them? Is the villagers' talk of a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 1 - Dmitri Kameron Mystery
    Witty and irreverent, this is the first in an irresistible crime series set in Tsarist Russia in the 1890s from the award-winning Michael Pearce.Tsarist Russia in the 1890s. Dmitri Kameron, a young lawyer, must deal with the disappearance of a well-connected young woman. She has been shipped off to Siberia, in one of the prison wagons outside the Court House. But is this a bureaucratic bungle or ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Dead Man in Trieste

    atmospheric historical crime from an award-winning author

    by Michael Pearce ...
    'Sheer fun' The TimesTrieste in 1906 is of vital strategic importance and one of the world's greatest seaports. But assorted nationalist movements are threatening to pull the place apart and the militarist regime has trouble keeping a lid on things.Amid all the chaos the British consul goes missing, and Special Branch Seymour is sent to find him. Born to an immigrant family in London's East End, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • A Dead Man in Tangier

    by Michael Pearce ...
    The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearces Dead Man series.Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to somewhere so exotic as North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there something for the local police? Well, yes and no. The local police are answerable to the International Committee, of which the chairman is the British Consul. So naturally the ensuing investigation has to be above ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Dead Man in Barcelona

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Barcelona, 1912. A city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the city's dockside against the royalist forces. In the fighting, many were killed, and afterwards, even more put in prison. Including an Englishman, who was later found dead in his cell.The dead man had been a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Dead Man in Athens

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece that unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great idea, in the view of other countries, among them Britain, which believes in letting sleeping dogs lie. And cats. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Night of the Dog

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 2 - Mamur Zapt Mysteries
    The Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's Secret Police under British Rule, did not concern himself with routine police matters. His are the intrigues, the shadowy and sinister events aimed at creating political instability—an event such as the discovery of the body of a dog in a Coptic tomb. This supreme Moslem insult could touch off an explosion among the Christian community. Equally volatile is the visit ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Donkey-Vous

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 3 - Mamur Zapt Mysteries
    "Tourists are quite safe provided they don't do anything stupidly reckless," Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's Political CID under British Rule, assures the press. But what of Monsieur Moulin, kidnapped while taking tea on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel? How has Mr. Colthorpe Hartley also disappeared? No one actually saw either victim vanish. Are these ordinary crimes? Are they ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Point in the Market

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 15 - Mamur Zapt Mysteries
    It's World War I. Britain has ruled Egypt since 1881 under a shadow government headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive. The head of the Secret Police is the Mamur Zapt, an office currently held by a Welshman, Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen. And as the clouds of the war further darken Egypt's sun-lit skies, he has his hands full. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Snake Catcher's Daughter

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series Book 8 - Mamur Zapt Mysteries
    Someone is running a campaign to discredit Cairo's senior police officials. Is Garvin, the Commandant, playing power games, or is he trying to get to the bottom of the allegations of corruption? What about Garvin's senior deputy, McPhee, a man who might finally be going round the bend? And what of the Mamur Zapt himself? He may be the British head of the city's Secret Police, but is he above ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dead Man in Naples

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Naples, 1913. Sun-baked, blue-skied, and with its amazing bay, one of the most beautiful spots in Italy - but also, one of the most backward. Into that world is sent a minor British consular official, Scampion, banished from Florence because he has allowed himself to be caught up in the mad social whirl surrounding D'Annunzio, the famous Italian poet, Nationalist and revolutionary.Scampion brings ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD