Featured Author - October 2022 Michael Pearce

[Alice]

Michael Pearce
Egypt (b.1933)

Michael Pearce grew up in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He returned there later to teach and retains a human rights interest in the area. He now lives in south-west London and is the author of the highly-acclaimed Mamur Zapt historical mystery series as well as the Seymour of Special Branch police procedural series.

Mamur Zapt

The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet
The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog
The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-vous
The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind
The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile
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The Women of the Souk


Seymour of Special Branch

A Dead Man in Trieste
A Dead Man in Istanbul
A Dead Man in Athens
A Dead Man in Tangier
A Dead Man in Barcelona
A Dead Man in Naples
A Dead Man in Malta

[Alice]

Seeing Michael Pearce has recently died I thought it would be good to make him author of the month for October. I have several of his books but have not read them. I am leaving for a vacation to South Dakota on Friday so I wanted to get this posted early.

[Sandy]

I will be reading The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-vous, next in the series for me.

[Helen]

I hope you enjoy it, Sandy. The books detail the microcosm that was British society in the Egypt of the time, the "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" element sometime evident, albeit reluctantly occasionally, but being a policeman, needs must. I read all of them and enjoyed every one. Very sorry we won't see any more.

[Alice]

I tried to read The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet

Just couldn't get into it. Basicly, I think it just kept circling around the same incedent and didn't move forward. It is a book that could benefit from a glossary of Egyptian terms. I read 55 pages and gave up on it.

[Helen]

Murder and Mayhem currently has The Bride Box (plus a lot of other books) on sale:

https://link.murder-mayhem.com/view/5...

[Katy]

Alice wrote: "I tried to read The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet

Just couldn't get into it. Basicly, I think it just kept circling around the same incedent and didn't move forward. It is..."

I never really got into it either, although I did finish it.

[Sandy]

I read The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-vous and liked it. I found it a fun entry in the series with the strawberry seller's method of "freshening" his fruit and Owen getting caught flirting. There is less politics in this book so I found it a more straight forward mystery. The donkey boys, dragomen and Shepard's Hotel all reminded me of the Amelia Peabody series.