Michael Pearce (author)

Michael Pearce (born 1933) is an award-winning author of historical fiction and police procedurals.

Biography

Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.[1] As an adult, he trained as a Russian interpreter during the Cold War,[2] and subsequently became involved with Amnesty International.

His first novel, The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet, was published in 1988. That was the start of a "Mamur Zapt" series of mysteries.

He has also published a number of "A Dead Man in..." mysteries, set in the period preceding the First World War and featuring Sandor Seymour, an officer of Scotland Yard's Special Branch who is sent by the British Foreign Office to deal with various crimes involving members of the British diplomatic service. These mysteries are notable for their attention to period details and settings.

Pearce's novel The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt (1992) won the Crime Writers' Association's Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel,[3] and his Death of an Effendi (1999) was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel.[4]

Bibliography

#TitleYearSeries
1The Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet1988Mamur Zapt
2The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog1989Mamur Zapt
3The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous1990Mamur Zapt
4The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind1991Mamur Zapt
5The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile1992Mamur Zapt
6The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt1992Mamur Zapt
7The Mamur Zapt and the Camel of Destruction1993Mamur Zapt
8The Snake Catcher's Daughter1994Mamur Zapt
9The Mingrelian Conspiracy1995Mamur Zapt
10The Fig Tree Murder1997Mamur Zapt
11Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers1997Dmitri Kameron'
12The Last Cut1998Mamur Zapt
12a"The Mamur Zapt and the Catherine Wheel"1998Short story, Past Poisons
13Death of an Effendi1999Mamur Zapt
14Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady1999Dmitri Kameron
15A Cold Touch of Ice2000Mamur Zapt
16The Face in the Cemetery2001Mamur Zapt
17A Dead Man in Trieste2004Seymour of Special Branch
18A Dead Man in Istanbul2005Seymour of Special Branch
19The Point in the Market2005Mamur Zapt
20A Dead Man in Athens2006Seymour of Special Branch
21A Dead Man in Tangier2007Seymour of Special Branch
22A Dead Man in Barcelona2008Seymour of Special Branch
23The Mark of the Pasha2008Mamur Zapt
24A Dead Man in Naples2009Seymour of Special Branch
25A Dead Man in Malta2010Seymour of Special Branch
26The Bride Box2013Mamur Zapt
27 The Mouth of the Crocodile2014Mamur Zapt
28 The Women of the Souk2016Mamur Zapt

(Note that some reprint editions of the Mamur Zapt series retitle the books by dropping the opening phrase "The Mamur Zapt and...".)

References

  1. Sharkey, Heather J. (1998). "The "Mamur Zapt" Novels of Michael Pearce" (PDF). Sudan Studies (newsletter of the Sudan Studies Association). 22: 28–30.
  2. Michael Pearce Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine at Tangled Web UK.
  3. List of Winners of the Last Laugh Award Archived 2012-11-20 at the Wayback Machine at the Crime Writers' Association
  4. Richard Lee, The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for Historical Detective Fiction 1999/2000: A Judge's Report, Solander: The Magazine of the Historical Novel Society, Issue 7, Spring 2000; archived at historicalnovelsociety.org.
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