The Laughing Corpse

Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Urdu by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. The beautiful Saeeda Rahman, a typist at the firm of James & Bartley, learns that her long-lost uncle has died in Jamaica and named her as the sole inheritor of his huge estate. Suddenly all the city's richest young men are competing for her attention. But when she's kidnapped during a scuffle at a popular restaurant, it's up to Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed to find out who's responsible...