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THE FIG TREE MURDER by MICHAEL PEARCE
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SummaryWhy was the body put on the line? Chance? Or did someone
want to halt the progress of the new electric railway out
fom Cairo to the City of Pleasure being built in the
suburbs? Was it another of Egypt's traditional revenge
killings? Or had the murdered man somehow got caught up in
the manoeuvrings of the sinister power groups jostling for
position around the new railway? In this, the tenth novel
in Michael Pearce's award-winning series, Old Egypt is
pitted against New and in the middle is the Mamur Zapt. To
answer these questions he has to look both in the luxurious
quarters of the dazzling New Heliopolis and in the more
humble houses of the dead man's village, and in neither
place are things as straightforward as they seem. What is
the significance of the tree of the Virgin? Does it matter
that the gathering place for the Mecca caravan is only a
mile or two away? And what of the ostrich that passed in
the night?
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