Pearce, Michael 1933-

The Mamur Zapt and the spoils of Egypt by Michael Pearce( Livre )
6 editions published between 1992 and 1995 in Anglais and Aucun contenu linguistique and held by 416 libraries worldwide
In colonial Egypt, Capt. Gareth Owen of the British police investigates the smuggling of antiquities out of the country. The probe is complicated by interference from a rich American lady who thinks she has the answers and who makes Owen's woman jealous.

A dead man in Tangier by Michael Pearce( Livre )
7 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in Anglais and held by 392 libraries worldwide
Tangiers in 1912 is an unusual city -- sometimes the police are there, and sometimes they aren't. When Seymour of Scotland Yard arrives to investigate a murder things inevitably go wrong.

A dead man in Naples by Michael Pearce( Livre )
3 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in Anglais and held by 369 libraries worldwide
Lionel Scampion, British consul in Naples, has been stabbed to death while bicycling through the piazza of the Porta Carmine. According to his sister, he had no enemies. The Neapolitan police suggest he was murdered by a bicycle-racing rival. In Naples, every mystery is attributed to the Camorra, a powerful criminal society; could its members be involved? Scampion enthusiastically backed the Italian invasion of Libya and befriended army officers of the newly formed Italian Bicycle Brigade. Now the Foreign Office in London has heard that international politics emanating from Rome might have been involved. Seymour of the Special Branch is sent to find out the motive for the murder and, incidentally, to identify the culprit.

The face in the cemetery by Michael Pearce( Livre )
3 editions published between 2001 and 2009 in Anglais and held by 153 libraries worldwide
Egypt, 1914. It's the beginning of the war and Mamur Zapt is given the task of rounding up enemy aliens. Nationality is a slipperything in cosmopolitan Egypt. Who counts as German? Whose face is in the cemetery?

Dmitri and the milk drinkers by Michael Pearce( Livre )
3 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in Anglais and held by 123 libraries worldwide
Russia in the 1890s, and a window of reform opens up in the oppressive Tsarist legal regime. Dmitri, a young lawyer, is just the man to jump through it, but not before he has dealt with the business of Anna, a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared from the regional Court House. It looks as if she has been shipped off by mistake to Siberia. Is this a bureaucratic bungle of enormous proportions or something more calculated?

The Mingrelian conspiracy by Michael Pearce( Livre )
7 editions published between 1996 and 2008 in Anglais and held by 91 libraries worldwide
The Cairo of 1908 lives by, and in, its cafes. Now, suddenly, Cairo's cafe culture is threatened by gangs in the protection business. But who are they? More importantly, who is behind them? With some sixty nationalities, one hundred and twelve ethnic groups and over two hundred religious sects, policing the capital is no easy matter. When one cafe owner is attacked for non-compliance, everyone is worried. Could the attacks be escalating towards the international community? And why might the Mingrelians, a small Christian group, target a Russian Grand Duke? Heading off any incident is the task of Gareth Owen, Head of the Secret Police. But will the Mamur Zapt find answers to so many arcane questions in time.

The Mamur Zapt & the return of the carpet by Michael Pearce( Livre )
1 edition published in 2001 in Anglais and held by 73 libraries worldwide

The mark of the pasha by Michael Pearce( Enregistrement sonore )
4 editions published in 2009 in Anglais and held by 62 libraries worldwide
Gareth Cadwallader Owen is the Mamur Zapt, the Head of the Khedive's Secret Police. He's spent his career defusing political time bombs, and he learns from his agents, some Greek and Egyptian, that the streets have been made dangerous by threats of real bombs. The first order of business is to ward them off. The second is to insure the safety of an impending major European delegation to the capital.

The point in the market by Michael Pearce( Livre )
6 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in Anglais and Non déterminée and held by 61 libraries worldwide
It's World War I. The head of the Secret Police is the Mamur Zapt, an office currently held by a Welshman, Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen. And as the clouds of the war further darken Egypt's sun-lit skies, he has his hands full. On the professional front, there's all that commotion that started in Cairo's Camel Market. On the personal side, Owen has married his longtime lover, the lovely Pasha's daughter, Zeinab, a move with serious consequences for both of them and riddled with political and social pitfalls.

The camel of destruction by Michael Pearce( Livre )
2 editions published between 1993 and 1997 in Anglais and held by 55 libraries worldwide