Michael Pearce (author)

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

Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. As an adult, he trained as a Russian interpreter during the Cold War,^[1] 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 "Dead Man" mysteries, featuring the Scotland Yard detective Sandor Seymour, which starts with Dead Man in Trieste.

His 1992 The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt won the Crime Writers' Association's Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel,^[2] and his 1999 Death of an Effendi was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel.^[3]

References

1. ^ Michael Pearce at Tangled Web UK
2. ^ List of winners of the Last Laugh Award at the Crime Writers' Association
3. ^ The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for Historical Detective Fiction 1999/2000: A judge's report by Richard Lee, from Solander: The Magazine of the Historical Novel Society, Issue 7, Spring 2000; archived at historicalnovelsociety.org

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