Reviews

The Bride Box by Michael Pearce

eychn's review

2.0

I couldn't get into the story.

flogigyahoo's review

3.0

This is listed as the 17th in the Mamur Zapt series about Egypt under British rule from about 1905 to the 1st World War and I've read every one. They are always delightful, always fascinating. The Mamur Zapt, head of the secret police is Owen and the give and take between him, his colleagues and the Parquet, the Egyptian police, is wonderful as are the passages where Owen confronts the local population. However, because Pearce has written so many of these he can now drop description, whether of people or places and only now and then does he allow himself to write of Cairo itself, with the Nile in the background, the people going about their daily chores, the heat, the noise, the smells and that's too bad; it's what made this series so special.