Mamur Zapt
The Mamur Zapt is the protagonist of an award-winning series of historical fiction police procedurals, written by Sudanese-born novelist Michael Pearce. The novels are set in Cairo at the turn of the twentieth century; the first in the series, The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet, was published in 1988.
Rather than being a specific person, "Mamur Zapt" was the official title of the head of the Cairo secret police; Pearce chose to fill this role with Gareth Cadwallader Owen, a Welsh army captain.
As of 2015, there are 18 novels in the Mamur Zapt series.
The books are:
- The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet (Published 1988)
- The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog (Published 1989)
- The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous (Published 1990)
- The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind (Published 1991)
- The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile (Published 1992)
- The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt (Published 1992)
- The Mamur Zapt and the Camel of Destruction (Published 1993)
- The Snake Catcher's Daughter (Published 1994)
- The Mingrelian Conspiracy (Published 1995)
- The Fig Tree Murder (Published 1997)
- The Last Cut (Published 1998)
- Death of an Effendi (Published 1999)
- A Cold Touch of Ice (Published 2000)
- The Face in the Cemetery (Published 2001)
- The Point in the Market
- The Mark of the Pasha
- The Bride Box (Published 2013)
- The Mouth of the Crocodile (Published 2015)
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