Spoils of Egypt, The
Subtitle: A Mamur Zapt Mystery (Mamur Zapt Mysteries)
Series: Mamur Zapt (6)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: July 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781590580585
Subjects: Mystery/Suspense; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
First sentence: A tall, thin, angular woman came through the door of the hotel.
Description: ""Accident? That was no accident!" exclaimed Miss Skinner. "I was pushed ... I know a push when I feel one." In fact, the outspoken Miss Skinner has barely escaped falling under a Cairo tram. Captain Owen, as Mamur Zapt - head of British-ruled Cairo's secret police - has been asked to keep an eye on the Boston-bred lady. Though affable, she is one of those people who seems to be everywhere at once."--BOOK JACKET. "At first, Owen thinks little of her "accident." Miss Skinner, he surmises, was probably nudged by a fat-tailed Passover sheep - not an uncommon occurrence in Edwardian Cairo. However, he is soon convinced that something more sinister - and more cunning - is at work."--Jacket.

"Trying to keep the incorrigible Miss Skinner safe proves a deadly task for Captain Owen; almost as dangerous as trying to placate his Egyptian mistress, the fiercely independent Zeinab. As Owen trails Miss Skinner to exotic excavation sites, he encounters a frightening series of baffling deaths. Now the Mamur Zapt must ponder two mysteries: how to propose marriage to Zeinab without losing face, and how to separate archaeology from plunder ... without losing his life."--Jacket.