The Evil Saint (The Collected Works of Karl May, Series III: Volume 4)

From dust jacket flap: The Evil Saint belongs to a series of novels in which Karl May explores the Islamic world of the late 19th century. The German scholar Kara Ben Nemsi and his Arab friend Hadji Halef Omar continue to try to solve the mystery of a murdered Frenchman whose body they discovered in the first novel of this series In The Desert. This volume begins one of the most famous chase-adventures in all of world literature. The shifting scene of action is the mountainous and primitive Balkins.