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Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 11
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
For millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nile. Its annual floods fertilize the land. By the time the British control Egypt, the Cairo Barrage is the key to control, its name taken from the French term meaning a dam or irrigation channel, designed to increase a river's depth or to divert flow. An attempt to blow up the Manufiyah regulator in the Barrage is not a petty matter. Gareth Owen, the Chief of Cairo's Secret Police, is hurriedly...
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Gareth Owen, aka the Mamur Zapt, investigates when it emerges that Cairo's senior policemen are the subject of a smear campaign.
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 13
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The murder of an Italian man in backstreet 1912 Cairo spells trouble for Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police, as he uncovers a possible ethnic cleansing plot and a hidden cache of weapons.
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 12
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The murder capital of the world, where deaths are two a piastre.
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 15
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It's World War I. Britain's shadow government, headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive, has ruled Egypt since 1881. 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. On the professional front, there's all that commotion that...
Author
Series
Mamur Zapt volume 9
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the Cairo of 1908 the protection rackets pose a problem. And the city's cafes are experiencing a sudden upsurge in threats from various gangs. But who are they? More importantly who's behind them?
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