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Someone is running a campaign to discredit Cairo's senior police officials.

In the Cairo of 1908, the city lives-and dies-by its cafE culture. But for all restaurant businesses, then and now, the protection rackets pose a problem.

Michael Pearce's tenth irresistible adventure for Colonial Egypt's the Mamur Zapt is fresh, funny, and "Still as fertile as your favourite oasis." Inevitably, as the tide of Nat

For millennia, Egypt has depended upon the waters of the Nile. Its annual floods fertilize the land.

It's 1909, and Cairo is the murder capital of the world. Deaths are two a piastre. But the death of an effendi is something different. Effendis-the Egyptian elite-are important.

The world is changing around the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police. It's 1912 and there's a war on that no one's heard of.

Egypt, 1914. The outbreak of war in Europe casts ripples that can be felt even in Cairo.

It's World War I.

The Great War has ended, and the army is keen to be demobbed.

The Countess of Prague is the wonderfully exciting introduction to Beatrice von Falklenburg, known to her intimates as Trixie, who will lead us from Prague through Europe and occasionally beyond on

She was 1932 Broadway's newest sensation. Then she was murdered.

It's 1933. No less than Europe, Britain, or America, Australia contends with the Left, mostly Communists but also Socialists, and a rising Right, Fascists.

A thrilling debut based based on the real case of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother sentenced to hang for her alleged role in a shocking murder, bringing together the accused with an idealistic y

The Hidden Thread is a breathtaking novel about the intricate craft of silk and the heartbreak of forbidden love.

"I really and truly could not put it down...'atsal succeeds once again!"-Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times-bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series For fans of Jacqueline Winspe