The Bride Box: Mamur Zapt Mysteries (Hardcover)
Autor Michael Pearceen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780727883032
ISBN-10: 0727883038
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:First World Publication.
Editura: Severn House Publishers
Seria Mamur Zapt Mysteries (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0727883038
Pagini: 202
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:First World Publication.
Editura: Severn House Publishers
Seria Mamur Zapt Mysteries (Hardcover)
Recenzii
This is a deftly plotted, cleverly written, highly entertaining mystery, but it’s the gentle humor and the warmth of the characters that earns it two thumbs decisively up.
Booklist Starred Review of The Bride Box
Booklist Starred Review of The Bride Box
“As always in this comically understated series, both crime and punishment are consistently upstaged by a lovingly detailed portrait of Egypt during the Great War. The result is a bit like a police procedural reimagined by Douglas Adams.”
Kirkus Reviews on The Bride Box
Kirkus Reviews on The Bride Box
Descriere
Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past – one which connects with practices long thought dead. At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor – and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive’s Secret Police, is called in to investigate.
An Englishman squeezed between the demands of a world about to disappear and the emerging needs of a world about to come, the Mamur Zapt, finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.
An Englishman squeezed between the demands of a world about to disappear and the emerging needs of a world about to come, the Mamur Zapt, finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.