Tales of Secret Egypt

The _duhr_, or noonday call to prayer, had just sounded from the minarets of the Mosques of Kalaûn and En-Nasîr, and I was idly noting the negligible effect of the _adan_ upon t...

In those days, of course (said the French agent, looking out across the sea of Yûssuf Effendis which billowed up against the balcony to where, in the moonlight, the minarets of...

I. LORD OF THE JACKALS 169 II. LURE OF SOULS 194 III. THE SECRET OF ISMAIL 216 IV. HARÛN PASHA 239 V. IN THE VALLEY OF THE SORCERESS 267 VI. POMEGRANATE FLOWER 290

I. THE YASHMAK OF PEARLS 1 II. THE DEATH-RING OF SNEFERU 31 III. THE LADY OF THE LATTICE 58 IV. OMAR OF ISPAHÂN 87 V. BREATH OF ALLAH 114 VI. THE WHISPERING MUMMY 144