Fig Tree Murder Author:Michael Pearce Why was the body put on the line? Did someone want to halt the progress of the new railway out from Cairo to the "City of Pleasure" being built in the suburbs? Or was it just another traditional revenge killing? To answer these questions the Mamur Zapt, British Head of Cairo's Secret Police, has to look both in the luxurious quarters of the dazz... more »ling New Heliopolis and in the more humble houses of the dead man's village and in neither place are things quite 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?« less