Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, AZ, 2006, 1^st U.S. trade paperback ed/1^st pr.  ISBN 1-59058-296-9.  Unread copy; just a hint of cover wear, small spot on bottom edge.  ‘Egypt, 1914.  The outbreak of war in Europe casts ripples that can be felt even in Cairo.  Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of the Khedive’s Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. … And then there’s the face in the cemetery.  A cat cemetery, at that.  Who disturbed the mummified remains by placing a human corpse amongst them?  Is the villagers’ talk of a mysterious Cat Woman mere superstitious nonsense, or something rather sinister?’ (from rear wrap)