The Snake-Catcher’s Daughter. Michael Pearce
Зарубежные детективы.
The Snake-Catcher’s Daughter
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780007485055
Автор произведения Michael Pearce
Жанр Зарубежные детективы
Издательство HarperCollins
In this engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt finds himself under threat from a campaign to discredit Cairo’s senior policemen.Cairo in the 1900s. The Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's secret police, finds himself in a compromising position. The city’s senior policemen are the subject of a smear campaign, a stinging attack which raises uncomfortable questions about their integrity.The Mamur Zapt himself is suspected, but is he above suspicion? Owen’s investigation takes him into hitherto uncharted territory: the underworld of Cairo and the dangerous profession of snake-catching…