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IN this, his latest book, Sax, Rohmer introduces Major Bariik, the Anglo-Arab soldier detective whose exploits are already popular in America among the several million readers of Collier's. In EGYPTIAN NIGHTS we meet characters which range from a Devon lady chicken farmer to Pool-o'-the-Moon, beautiful daughter of a wealthy sheikh; Lady Avalon Westry, the stainless blonde; Colonel Rodem-Pyne of Cairo Intelligence; and that bloodthirsty mystery man—the Scorpion of Kashan. Birnbashi Baruk's investigations lead him from the Surrey countryside to the Syrian desert, from an Afghan frontier town to Libya. |