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John Milne is a British author and editor known for children's books and young adult novels published in the 1970s-1980s. One of his works is The Black Cat, a mystery novel centered around Egyptian inspector Salahadin El Nur. The story follows Salahadin as he investigates the murder of an archaeologist and the theft of a valuable ancient artifact known as the Black Cat. Through clues and chases across Egypt and other countries, Salahadin works to find the killer and recover the stolen antiquity.

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The Black Cat

John Milne is a British author and editor known for children's books and young adult novels published in the 1970s-1980s. One of his works is The Black Cat, a mystery novel centered around Egyptian inspector Salahadin El Nur. The story follows Salahadin as he investigates the murder of an archaeologist and the theft of a valuable ancient artifact known as the Black Cat. Through clues and chases across Egypt and other countries, Salahadin works to find the killer and recover the stolen antiquity.

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JOHN MILE

.John Milne was born in London in 1952

. John Milne is a published author and an editor


of children's books and young adult books.
Some of the published credits of John Milne
include The Black Cat, The Long Tunnel, Oliver
Twist (Heinemann Guided Readers).
LITERARY WORK
-Queen the Death(1979).

-The Long Tunnel(1980).

-The Magic Barber(1989).

-Lucky Number(1989).

-The Black Cat(1992).


THE BLACK CAT
STAGE WHERE THE WORK IS DEVELOPED

 The office of Salahadin.

 The streets of El Cairo.

 Beirut

 The Syria ship.


CHARACTERS

MAIN CHARACTER SECUNDARY CHARACTERS

.Ahmed
.Taxi Driver
.Salahadin El Nur .Fuad
.Leila
.Borkman
.Peterson
SUMMARY

. The main character in this story is called


Salahadin.
He's an inspector in the Egyptian police.
His job is to protect Egyptian antiquities.
Many of them are in museums in Cairo or in
Europe, but some of them aren't found yet.
.The story begins with a headline in the
newspaper announcing that the archaeologist
Pearson was found dead in a Cairo hotel.
Salahadin is in charge of the investigation and
discovers two important things:
- Pearson was killed.
- The person responsible stole one of the seven
boxes he had.
With the help of Ahmed and Fuad, he will delve
into the search for the killer.
.The murderer it was a smuggler of antiquities
During the pursuit they rode in the mountains, the two smugglers had an
accident.

.Salahadin went to the cars. The only surviver was the murderer. The Black Cat
was now in hands of Peterson.

.Saladin finds a Peterson and has an altercation where Peterson falls off the
boat and Salahadin retrieves the black cat
.When Salahadin came on in Athens, He told the police
everything and they believed him, after showing the
Black Cat and some to evidences.

.The Black Cat was given to a museum and all the


offenders were dead. After all they found out, that the
Black Cat was not made of gold or diamonds, but it was
very valuable, because it was more than two thousand
years old.

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