The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt

<p>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.</p> <p>Cairo 1908. Captain Gareth Owen the Mamur Zapt or 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?</p> <p>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….</p>