Winner of the CWA Last Laugh Award, an irresistible historical mystery in which the Mamur Zapt investigates the illegal trade of antiquities in the Cairo of the 1900s.
Cairo, 1908. The Mamur Zapt, Captain Gareth Owen, British head of Cairo's secret police, turns his attention to the illegal trade of antiquities when Miss Skinner arrives. She's a woman with the habit of asking awkward questions. But what is she doing looking for crocodiles? And mummified ones at that?
Owen's new brief is to see that Egypt's priceless treasures stay in Egypt. But when Miss Skinner narrowly escapes falling under a conveyance, Owen must labour to thwart killers and face an even graver problem: whether to ask the Pasha's lovely daughter to marry him....
- ISBN10 0892965606
- ISBN13 9780892965601
- Publish Date 1 October 1995 (first published 4 January 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mysterious Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 186
- Language English