The Great War has ended, and the army is keen to be demobbed. But Willoughby, the new British High Commissioner in Egypt, has managed to affront the Khedive by refusing to receive rival delegations fueled by rising nationalism. Then, ...

In his sixth outing, Captain Gareth Owen, the head of Cairo's Secret Police, returns to Egypt to protect the niece of a U.S. president, whose crusade against Egyptian exporters of priceless antiquities nearly lands her under the Mamur...

'1909 Egypt: Captain Gareth Owen, Head of the Cairo Secret Police, has to ask, "Where's the body?" The girl, perhaps a woman of ill repute, was lost overboard, and later glimpsed lying on a sand bank in the Nile. Then she va...

In a country wracked by depression and financial hardship, Captain Gareth Owen, head of Cairo's Secret Police, investigates the mysterious death of a civil servant, a crime that leads to rumors of scandal, high-level political corrupt...

The world is changing aroung the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police. IIt's 1912 and there's a war on that no one's heard of. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets, there is concern that this could ...

Captain Gareth Owen, the British head of Cairo's secret police, comes up against a campaign to discredit senior police officials and finds himself drawn into a world of mysterious exorcism rites and the craft of snake catching. Reprin...