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A classic murder mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, in which The Mamur Zapt races to prevent an explosion of religious violence in the Cairo of the 1900s.Cairo in the 1900s. When the body of a dog is discovered in a Coptic tomb a Muslim insult that could spark an explosion among the Christian community the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairos secret police, is called in to investigate.Equally volatile is a command from an English Member of Parliament that the Mamur Zapt, Gareth Owen, show the MPs niece the sights of the city. When a dancing dervish is stabbed before the ladys very eyes, Owen begins to uncover a plot to set Cairos ethnic communities at each others throats