A Cold Touch of Ice

Michael Pearce

ISBN 10: 000825947X / ISBN 13: 9780008259471

Editore: Harpercollins UK, Harpercollins Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - In this classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce's award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the murder of an Italian man in the backstreets of Cairo. Cairo, 1908. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets, there is concern that this could be some kind of ethnic cleansing. Were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it Gareth Owen - the Mamur Zapt - has to find out fast. And then there are other difficult questions. What are Trudi von Ramsberg and Gertrude Bell really doing in Cairo As the Mamur Zapt is drawn deeper into the investigation, he's not the only one who has problems over where his allegiance lies.

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• Titolo: A Cold Touch of Ice
• Editore: Harpercollins UK, Harpercollins Sep 2017
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 000825947X
• ISBN 13: 9780008259471
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

In this classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce’s award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the murder of an Italian man in the backstreets of Cairo. Cairo, 1908. When an Italian man is murdered in the city’s back streets, there is concern that this could be some kind of ethnic cleansing. Were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it? Gareth Owen – the Mamur Zapt – has to find out fast. And then there are other difficult questions. What are Trudi von Ramsberg and Gertrude Bell really doing in Cairo? As the Mamur Zapt is drawn deeper into the investigation, he’s not the only one who has problems over where his allegiance lies…

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his fascination for language began. He later trained as a Russian interpreter but moved away from languages to follow an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas, and then as an administrator. Michael Pearce now lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books.