Death of an EffendiShortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel, this is an engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, featuring the inimitable Mamur Zapt. Cairo, 1909. The murder capital of the world, where deaths are two a piastre. But the death of an effendi? That is something different. Effendis the Egyptian elite are important. Especially if in a country ruled by foreigners they happen to be foreign. Gareth Owen, the Mamur