A Mediterranean mystery

the long version

Rev. Davornen, vicar of a sleepy Sussex parish, enjoys his quiet life of scholarship and pigeon husbandry. When his wandering younger brother Edmund turns up with tales of a successful trading business with the mysterious Capt. Welfare, Davornen is pleased and offers to help finance the endeavor. However, when a short pleasure jaunt to the Channel Islands turns into an involuntary trip to Egypt, the vicar is caught up in a web of intrigue and deception which threatens the safely of both brothers. Not a conventional "mystery", but a story where the protagonist discovers the truth about what's happening to him as the plot unfolds.