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As I mention from time to time, Michael Pearce is one of my top four or five favorite mystery authors - I love both his Mamur Zapt series and his Dead Man series. The sixth book in the Mamur Zapt series, The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt, which, per SYKM, won the 1993 Last Laugh Dagger Award, has just dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753Y2FXZ

Spoiler:

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.

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?

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….