The Point in the Market: A Mamur Zapt Mystery (Mamur Zapt Mysteries)
Pearce delivers another sizzling installment in his excellent Mamur Zapt series. As chief of Cairo's secret police (the Mamur Zapt), Welshman Gareth Owen continues to delicately straddle a cultural divide made more precarious by the onset of World War I. Caught betwixt and between Egyptian, Turkish, and British social and political interests, he investigates both the murder of one of his local agents and a rash of inexplicable fires plaguing the foreign owned and operated liquor houses. In addition, Owen struggles with divided loyalties and emotions made all the more complicated by his recent marriage to Zeinab, the independent and outspoken daughter of a local Pasha. Set in an exotic locale at a pivotal point in history and populated by a memorable international cast, this intelligent whodunit shines as much for its cosmopolitan setting and characterizations as for its tautly woven plot.Margaret FlanaganCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.