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Michael Pearce
The Baasgarta's capitol has fallen but the war is far from over. Tens of thousands of enslaved dwarves remain in the north waiting to be liberated. Meanwhile Engvyr must come…
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A comprehensive and up-to-date sociodialectological study of North East Vernacular English
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Pearce continues to chronicle murder and mayhem in early-20th-century Egypt, in this 16th installment in the superbly crafted Mamur Zapt series.
Atbara, Sudan, 1913. A dead man is fished out of the River Nile. An accident - or something more sinister? A visiting Pasha from the Royal Household believes it was…
Cairo, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt takes charge of…
The suicide of a clerk in the Ministry of Agriculture hardly seemed to warrant the attention of the head of Cairo’s political CID in Edwardian Egypt, but Captain Owen soon…
1909 Egypt: Captain Gareth Owen, Head of the Cairo Secret Police, has to ask, Where’s the body? The girl, perhaps a woman of ill repute, was lost overboard, and later…
Edwardian Egypt and archaeology go hand in hand, not just for the antiquarian but for the men, whether poor fellahin or rich merchant, who profit from the illegal export of…
Is Garvin, the commandant, playing power games, or is he trying to get to the bottom of the allegations of corruption?
From the award-winning Michael Pearce, comes a delightful murder mystery set in Egypt in 1908. A body is found on the tracks of a new electric railway and the Mamur…
In this classic mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the discovery of a young woman’s body at the site…
A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable Mamur Zapt is called in to…
Shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel, this is an engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, featuring the inimitable Mamur Zapt.
A novel set in the Egypt of the 1900s.
The Great War has ended, and the army is keen to be demobbed. But Willoughby, the new British High Commissioner in Egypt, has managed to affront the
Praise for The Mamur Zapt &The Return of the Carpet…
Pearce depicts the intricate politics and social mores among the various Egyptian societies and factions to provide authentic background…
Originally published: London: Collins, 1989, under the title The Mamur Zapt and the night of the dog.
Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the political and other tensions he draws on for his books. He returned there later to teach and retains a…
While riding home to lunch on his donkey, Fairclough of Customs is rudely unseated by shots fired from behind. The incident is the first of a series of attacks aimed…
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…
The end of the world is just the beginning. Earth has suffered a devastating attack by an unknown force of extraterrestrial origin, wiping out a civilization ten thousand years in…
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Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader.
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.
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Michael 'Tinker' Pearce lives in Seattle with his wife and co-author Linda. He got the nickname 'Tinker' in the 1980's when he was at various times a soldier, college student…
Designed to help the reader by stripping CRM down into its component parts under the umbrella of developing and executing a CRM strategy. It delves into and explains the role…
Originally published: London: Collins Crime, 2000.
Set in Egypt during World War I, this remarkable series is penned by a former Anglo-Egyptian civil servant who succeeds in bringing a vibrant, conflict-packed age to life in a…
From the award-winning author of the Mamur Zapt series
From the award-winning author of the Mamur Zapt series.
The fifth exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearce’s Dead Man series, featuring Seymour of the Special Branch.
The sixth exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearce’s Dead Man series, featuring Seymour of the Special Branch
The seventh Dead Man In … mystery, featuring Seymour of the Foreign Office.
The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearce’s Dead Man series, featuring Seymour of the Special Branch
Novel set in the Egypt of the 1900s.
The second in the crime series set in Tsarist Russia.
In this classic mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, a powerful politician is murdered in Cairo in the 1900s and the Mamur Zapt is called in to investigate
A classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in Egypt in the 1900s, in which the Mamur Zapt confronts the secrets of his past.
A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, which sees the Mamur Zapt investigate a series of suspicious kidnappings in the Cairo of the 1900s.
