The Bride Box (A Mamur Zapt Mystery)

By Michael Pearce

Subjects: History, Slave trade, British Occupation of Egypt (1882-1936) fast (OCoLC)fst01352144, Egypt, Fiction, British, Cairo, Egypt, fiction, British Occupation of Egypt (1882-1936) fast, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, mystery, Gareth Cadwallader Owen (Fictitious character), Fiction, crime, Owen, gareth cadwallader (fictitious character), fiction

Description: Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past . . . At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor - and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is called in to investigate. He soon finds himself confronting a political storm as the end of British rule approaches and his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.