Pepper Masalah and the Disappearing RopePepper Masalah and the Flying Carpet by Rosanne Hawke is a series of five or more chapter storybooks featuring an adventurous black cat called Pepper Masalah and her nine year old friend, Zamir. Pepper Masalah lives with Zamir and his family on an olive farm in Australia. Zam's grandmother is from the old country (Kashmir), and she brought with her an ancient carpet. She believes the carpet can fly and that it will try to find its previous master in