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Someone has been smuggling priceless antiquities out of British-controlled Egypt, maintains imperious American visitor Enid Skinner, and now that same someone has tried to kill her by pushing her under the wheels of a tram. So Gareth Cadwallader Owen, head of Cairo's secret police, has two new headaches: identifying the powers behind the possible smuggling ring - who may well have killed two workmen in a pair of more successful accidents at an excavation site at Der el Bahari - and dealing with Miss Skinner, who never forgets that her uncle may succeed Teddy Roosevelt as president. Despite some promising skirmishes between Miss Skinner and Owen's equally strong-willed lover, Zeinab Al Nuri, this sixth slice of 1908 Egyptian intrigue, like last year's The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile, lacks the riot of local colors and fragrances that made Pearce's earlier entries so memorable. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Captain Owen, head of Edwardian Cairo's political CID, performs his usual tightrope act between the conflicting demands of his British masters and their Egyptian "subjects" when he becomes involved in investigating the illegal export of antiques.
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Protecting Egypt from the Antiquities Thieves
25 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
Each of these excellent (but slim) books placed in Edwardian Egypt seems to revolve around a theme. Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt (head of the political section of the British police in Cairo), has to deal with the conflicting laws, nationalities, religions, and other forces in tracking down crime and protecting British rule.
The stories parallel Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody archaeological detective adventures, especially this one, as the theme is the theft of Egypt's antiquities. But, while the story is up to the usual high standards, for once the picture of Egypt doesn't really correspond to the image in the Peabody books. Captain Owen visits Luxor and Deir el-Bahri (spelled here Der el-Bahari), site of the excavation of the lovely temple of the woman pharaoh Hatshepsut. And while Peabody's husband Emerson may be constantly complaining about the quality of other excavators, the (apparently imaginary) Parker expedition at Deir el Bahri seems much less savory than the actual excavations in the area as late as 1908.
(There's also nothing here to indicate that Howard Carter was busy digging in the nearby Valley of the Kings on behalf of Lord Carnarvon.)
Gaston Maspero, the head of the Department of Antiquities, is nowhere to be found in this book, nor does it reflect his struggle to stop the looting, which became law four years after the time of this book, in 1912.
The story is a good one, but it is weakened by its interesting theme apparently not reflecting the actual situation in Egypt at the time. On the other hand, it does end on a high note, with Captain Owen popping "the Question" to his independently-minded Egyptian mistress Zeinab.
The stories parallel Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody archaeological detective adventures, especially this one, as the theme is the theft of Egypt's antiquities. But, while the story is up to the usual high standards, for once the picture of Egypt doesn't really correspond to the image in the Peabody books. Captain Owen visits Luxor and Deir el-Bahri (spelled here Der el-Bahari), site of the excavation of the lovely temple of the woman pharaoh Hatshepsut. And while Peabody's husband Emerson may be constantly complaining about the quality of other excavators, the (apparently imaginary) Parker expedition at Deir el Bahri seems much less savory than the actual excavations in the area as late as 1908.
(There's also nothing here to indicate that Howard Carter was busy digging in the nearby Valley of the Kings on behalf of Lord Carnarvon.)
Gaston Maspero, the head of the Department of Antiquities, is nowhere to be found in this book, nor does it reflect his struggle to stop the looting, which became law four years after the time of this book, in 1912.
The story is a good one, but it is weakened by its interesting theme apparently not reflecting the actual situation in Egypt at the time. On the other hand, it does end on a high note, with Captain Owen popping "the Question" to his independently-minded Egyptian mistress Zeinab.
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