The Camel Of Destruction (LIN) (Linford Mystery Library)

Cairo, 1910: the end of the boom and everyone seems to have money troubles. Then one day a civil servant dies at his desk. The whiff of corruption is in the air, with even Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, seen to live beyond his means - and he's the one who's supposed to be investigating the affair. Owen's attempts to do so take him to the heart of such sinister organizations as the Khedival Agricultural Society. But he soon realizes that money speaks louder than words in Edwardian Cairo.