Books by Michael Pearce and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Pearce, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-385-41520-0
Set in 1908 Cairo, this colorful mystery debut vividly portrays life in the polyglot, multicultural city ostensibly ruled by a nearly bankrupt Khedive but actually governed by the British. Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt (head of the secret...
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Michael Pearce. Severn, $28.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8618-7
Set in Egypt in 1913, Pearce’s 19th Mamur Zapt mystery (after 2014’s The Mouth of the Crocodile) exemplifies the main strengths of this long-running series—dry humor coupled with a subtle depiction of the tensions created by the British presence....
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Michael Pearce. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8463-3
Pearce’s 18th mystery set in early 20th-century Egypt (after 2013’s The Bride Box) is his best yet, replete with his dry sense of humor. Gareth Owen, the head of the Khedive’s Secret Police, agrees to protect a royal pasha carrying some sensitive...
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Michael Pearce. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8303-2
Set in 1913, Pearce’s 17th Mamur Zapt mystery (after 2008’s The Mark of the Pasha) showcases the author’s gift for combining humor with a whodunit puzzle. Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, or head of the secret police for the Khedive (the Egyptian...
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Michael Pearce, Author Poisoned Pen Press $24.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-59058-065-3
Lord Kitchener's appointment as consul-general for Egypt in 1912 portends major changes for Gareth Owen, the head of the Cairo secret police, in Michael Pearce's A Cold Touch of Ice: A Mamur Zapt Mystery, the latest standout in the long-running...
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Michael Pearce, Author Poisoned Pen Press $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59058-070-7
At the start of WWI, Capt. Gareth Owen is busy interning German citizens living in Egypt in Michael Pearce's The Face in the Cemetery: A Mamur Zapt Mystery, the latest entry in this engaging historical series. When the discovery of a corpse wrapped...
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Michael Pearce, Author Poisoned Pen Press $24.95 (207p) ISBN 978-1-59058-066-0
Set in Cairo in 1909, Michael Pearce's Death of an Effendi: A Mamur Zapt Mystery, the 12th in this well-received historical series, finds Gareth Owen, the head of the secret police force tasked with maintaining political calm, entering the murky...
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Michael Pearce, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-89296-560-1
The choice locale of turn-of-the-century Cairo is squandered in this fifth Mamur Zapt mystery (after, most recently, The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind). Captain Gareth Owen's position as part of the British Police force is always a tricky balance of
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Michael Pearce, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-89296-509-0
The fifth case (after The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind) for Captain Garth Owen, head of the British police force in Cairo in the first decade of the 20th century, is less exciting than its volatile setting suggests. Investigating the death of a...
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Michael Pearce, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-89296-486-4
The setting--Cairo, c. 1908--is everything in this tale of missing persons, which is more successful as armchair travel than as armchair detection. Introduced in The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet , British Capt . Cadwallader Owen, as head...
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Michael Pearce, Author Poisoned Pen Press $24.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-59058-067-7
Michael Pearce continues to display his mastery of the light historical in The Last Cut: A Mamur Zapt Mystery, in which his quick-witted and personable hero, Gareth Owen, tries to defuse tensions arising from two crimes centered on a major Nile...
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Michael Pearce, Author Doubleday Books $15 (184p) ISBN 978-0-385-41521-7
First met in The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet , Captain Gareth Owen is a colonial police officer in British-controlled Cairo. As Mamur Zapt, his job is to keep the uneasy peace between the Coptic and Muslim factions of the city. One night
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Michael Pearce, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-59058-024-0
British author Pearce (The Snake-catcher's Daughter) offers the seventh fascinating installment in his series featuring Capt. Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, who serves as head of the political branch of the British police in 1910 colonial Egypt....
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Michael Pearce, Author Mysterious Press $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-89296-487-1
As head of the British secret police in Cairo in 1908, Captain Cadwallader Owen is called the Mamur Zapt. In his fourth appearance (after The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous ), Owen receives complaints from a spate of English visitors and Egyptians...
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Michael Pearce, Soho Constable, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56947-878-3
Set in 1913, Pearce's thin seventh mystery to feature Scotland Yard's Sandor Seymour (after 2009's A Dead Man in Naples) opens with an intriguing puzzle. Seymour, a troubleshooter routinely dispatched across Europe to handle sensitive inquiries,...
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Michael Pearce, Author Soho Constable $25 (202p) ISBN 978-1-56947-607-9
Pearce’s sixth mystery to feature Scotland Yard’s Sandor Seymour (after 2008’s A Dead Man in Barcelona
) deftly mixes humor with a whodunit plot. A couple of years before WWI, the Foreign Office sends Seymour to Italy to...
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Michael Pearce, Author . Soho Constable $25 (207p) ISBN 978-1-56947-537-9
Pearce's solid fifth pre-WWI historical to feature Sandor Seymour of Special Branch (after 2007's A Dead Man in Tangier
) takes the Scotland Yard detective to Barcelona, Spain, to crack a two-year-old cold case—the death, while in a...
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Michael Pearce, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (206p) ISBN 978-1-59058-444-6
The movement for Egyptian independence turns increasingly violent at the end of WWI, in 1918, presenting Gareth Owen (aka the Mamur Zapt or head of the secret police) with fresh challenges in the enjoyable 16th entry in Pearce's series set in...
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Michael Pearce, Author . Carroll & Graf $25.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1828-3
Pearce hits his stride with his third mystery (after 2005's A Dead Man in Istanbul
) to chronicle the international exploits of Sandor Seymour, a polyglot Scotland Yard detective who's just as engaging as Owen Gareth, the hero of Pearce's
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Michael Pearce, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1597-8
Pearce's second espionage-flavored whodunit may strike even his fans as overly derivative of its predecessor, A Dead Man in Trieste
(2004). The wry humor of the author's acclaimed Mamur Zapt historicals (The Camel of Destruction
, etc.),...
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Michael Pearce, Author . Carroll & Graf $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1465-0
British author Pearce, creator of the acclaimed Mamur Zapt historical series (The Camel of Destruction
, etc.), makes the case for a larger fan base with this first in a new series, set early in the 20th century amid the growing erosion of the power
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Michael Pearce, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59058-068-4
First published in the U.K. in 1996, Pearce's 10th Mamur Zapt mystery is good on period atmosphere but less successful as a whodunit. Gareth Owen, who as the Mamur Zapt heads the secret police for the British in early 20th-century Cairo, is...
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Michael Pearce, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59058-069-1
In Pearce's latest entertaining historical (after 2003's The Snake Catcher's Daughter), set in 1908 colonial Egypt, Captain Gareth Owen, aka the Mamur Zapt who heads the British secret police, tackles two problems. Gangs of extortionists
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Michael Pearce, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-59058-051-6
British author Pearce again masterfully blends period detail and a compelling plot in his eighth mystery, set in Colonial Egypt, to feature Captain Gareth Owen, the head of Cairo's secret police (aka the Mamur Zapt). When the deputy commandant...
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