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Pearce's series of Mamur Zapt mysteries is a wonder. Pearce is a master of revelatory dialogue. His characters reveal themselves through what they say.

Edwardian Egypt. The decline of Victorian empire, the rise of competing empires. The gateway to the 40 years' war, 1912-1953. Focus on Suez Canal, as the aorta of Euro-imperialism. Gateway to the Suez crisis (1956), to America's blundering imperialism in the Greater Middle East. Timely as well as artistic.

This particular book deals with gender roles in a modernizing Arabic, Muslim society. If one reads laxly, one might miss the brilliance of the author's sensitive treatment of these issues.


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The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile Michael Pearce 9780892965090 Books Reviews

I had to post after reading the one negative review of this book. My husband and I read the entire series and loved every selection. It's a fascinating era of history and setting. One can easily see the groundwork for today's convoluted Middle Eastern situation in the politics of the early 20th century. The characters are compelling and the author writes with great humor and wit.
This is another charming tale set in Egypt prior to WW1. The girl of the title has been seen dead on a sandbank in the Nile but when the police arrive the body has vanished. The hunt for the body begins. The Mamur Zapt, head of Secret Police, is involved because the girl is thought to have fallen off the boat belonging to an heir to the throne of Egypt.

While we have all the usual tact, frustration at corruption, poor treatment of women, respect for tradition and so on, I didn't enjoy this book so much as some of the others. There is less humour in it and there is no happy resolution; perhaps the author means to say that there cannot be one while women are treated as possessions. We do find the usual political tensions with the wealthy ruler opposed by some of his own and the British / French interests in Egypt a cause for further anger. Certainly if you want to get an idea of early 20th century Cairo, this series is a great place to go, and the tensions leading up to the war and the end of colonial rule are subtly evident.
I really enjoy this series, but I can see why someone coming to this book without any preparation would have difficulty with it.

There are so many different cultures, including several levels of Egyptian life at the beginning of the 20 th Century, then throw in the Egyptian-Francophile rich set and the various British government offices, and things are confusing for those characters trying to navigate it all. Add in that the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen is actually Welsh and has his own difficulties with the English.

This is the 5 th book in the series, and I had already read some that were earlier and some that were later, so I was able to figure it all out, including the basis of the murder plot and who and why.

The details on the limitations on women in Egypt are fascinating. And, as a woman who has visited that wonderful country in the year 2000, i have seen that many of them still exist.
Michael Pearce's Mamur Zapt (an Ottoman title for the chief of secret police) mysteries are light and entertaining, both as historical fiction and as period mysteries. While its unfortunate a reader (and apparently her book club) didn't care for the character and the series, I can't help but wonder if this wasn't in part, a function of jumping into the middle of a series. Set in 1909 Cairo, the British chief of secret police (Gareth Owen - the Mamur Zapt) is simultaneously involved in three cases, that as luck would have it, are intertwined.

In his official capacity, Owen is occupied tracking down arms being smuggled into Cairo - a hotbed of dissent and turmoil inthe waning days of the Ottoman empire, resentment also building against the European occupation. While attempting to find the weapons (and the smugglers), the Mamur Zapt is pulled into a murder and missing person's case the body of a western-dressed Egyptian woman has washed up on the banks of the Nile (hence the title), only to mysteriously disappear. A third element in this already complex story is the role of the Khedive's son may have played in the murder and disappearance of the young lady, and who may also be involved in the smuggling of arms.

These are a lot of balls to keep juggling, but Pearce is up to the task, and he manages to do so well. The story moves at a brisk pace, jumping from one case to the next as they gradually begin to merge and overlay into a single, cohesive case. The final reveal of the smuggling, murder and disappearance of the body is well put together, although the character pulling the strings was vague - for which I deducted a star. The mystery aside, Pearce's Egypt is alive with the rhythms of Arabic life and the cultural cues and mis-cues between East and West, and with a critical eye towards not only political relationships, but also gender roles. This is primarily the reason I keep coming back to his storytelling.

For fans of turn-of-the-last century fiction and those enjoy a breezy mystery, I recommend the series (beginning with The Mamur Zapt & the Return of the Carpet A Mamur Zapt Mystery (Mamur Zapt Mysteries). These books make for great summer reading.
The fifth of the series (The Spoils of Egypt is the SIXTH), quieter that the rest but a good read. One wonders if modern Egypt has changed all that much. The twists and turns of government are breathtaking - will the villain get away or not.
Pearce's series of Mamur Zapt mysteries is a wonder. Pearce is a master of revelatory dialogue. His characters reveal themselves through what they say.

Edwardian Egypt. The decline of Victorian empire, the rise of competing empires. The gateway to the 40 years' war, 1912-1953. Focus on Suez Canal, as the aorta of Euro-imperialism. Gateway to the Suez crisis (1956), to America's blundering imperialism in the Greater Middle East. Timely as well as artistic.

This particular book deals with gender roles in a modernizing Arabic, Muslim society. If one reads laxly, one might miss the brilliance of the author's sensitive treatment of these issues.