Review
Muslims and Copts each claim the site of the fig tree as sacred, the railway from Cairo is planned to go through it, so who arranged the body there, and why? Unflappable Captain Owen the Mamur Zapt has enough on his plate already: Nationalist agitation, oily Pashas, French sensitivity, a temperamental lady friend. The tenth in this blissful series. (Kirkus UK)
Product Description
Why was the body put on the line? Did someone want to halt the progress of the New Electric Railway out from Cairo to the "City of Pleasure" being built in the suburbs? Old Egypt is pitted against New and in the middle is the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police.