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Michael Pearce (born 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,〔(Michael Pearce ) at Tangled Web UK〕 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 "A Dead Man in..." mysteries, set in the period preceding World War I and featuring Sandor Seymour, an officer of Scotland Yard's Special Branch who is sent by the British Foreign Office to deal with various crimes involving members of the British diplomatic service. These mysteries are notable for their attention to period detail and setting. His 1992 ''The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt'' won the Crime Writers' Association's Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel,〔(List of winners of the Last Laugh Award ) at the Crime Writers' Association〕 and his 1999 ''Death of an Effendi'' was shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award for best historical crime novel.〔(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〕 ==Bibliography== (Note that some reprint editions of the ''Mamur Zapt'' series retitle the books by dropping the opening phrase "The Mamur Zapt and...".) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Pearce (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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