"Who Killed the Ghost?"
Super Detective Library No. 52.
Characters created by Charles B. Child (Claude Vernon Frost, 1903-93).
Graphic novel (64 pages).
Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE).
Graphic novel (64 pages).
Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE).
"Take a dead man's word for it—it's all true about paradise! Black-eyed houris, flowing wine . . ."
After Inspector Chafik's adopted son breathlessly informs his father that he has seen a dead man being buried, Chafik reluctantly initiates an investigation, skeptical of the whole thing. Thanks to "the filing cabinet of his mind" and old-fashioned slogging police work, the Inspector discovers what has all the earmarks of a deadly conspiracy involving a handsome inheritance. Nevertheless, his inquiry encounters baffling stumbling-blocks and strange twists and turns, causing Chafik at one point to admit to his sergeant: "This is the most fantastic case I have ever investigated!"
Major characters:
~ Zaki Attala:
". . . the dead one . . ."
~ Faisal:
"I know he was dead because his head was twisted—to one side."
~ Leila:
"Allah be merciful! For a boy to see such horror!"
~ Ibrahim:
"That boy has visions! I, too, sometimes have them!"
~ Jamil:
"I advise you—take a stick to that boy!"
~ Naomi:
"My father's temper—you understand?"
~ Aziz Chelebi:
"You speak of him as if he were an inanimate object!"
~ Lady Rejina:
". . . for twenty years Rejina had ruled her brothers with her father's money. She had never married, neither had she allowed them to marry."
~ Malek:
". . . does not like talking to policemen—but he has told me that, last night, he took shelter from the storm among the date palms outside this very house. He heard a shot, my father, and then saw a gun thrown over the wall."
~ Sergeant Abdullah:
"He has a bullet between the eyes; the gun, of small calibre, is missing; it rained when he was buried, and it ceased to rain at midnight. Therefore—"
~ Inspector Chafik J. Chafik:
". . . tried to reassure himself . . . He told himself he dealt in facts . . . He would not let an imaginative boy and a moon-mad woman confound the evidence of his eyes . . ."
~ Zaki Attala:
". . . the dead one . . ."
~ Faisal:
"I know he was dead because his head was twisted—to one side."
~ Leila:
"Allah be merciful! For a boy to see such horror!"
~ Ibrahim:
"That boy has visions! I, too, sometimes have them!"
~ Jamil:
"I advise you—take a stick to that boy!"
~ Naomi:
"My father's temper—you understand?"
~ Aziz Chelebi:
"You speak of him as if he were an inanimate object!"
~ Lady Rejina:
". . . for twenty years Rejina had ruled her brothers with her father's money. She had never married, neither had she allowed them to marry."
~ Malek:
". . . does not like talking to policemen—but he has told me that, last night, he took shelter from the storm among the date palms outside this very house. He heard a shot, my father, and then saw a gun thrown over the wall."
~ Sergeant Abdullah:
"He has a bullet between the eyes; the gun, of small calibre, is missing; it rained when he was buried, and it ceased to rain at midnight. Therefore—"
~ Inspector Chafik J. Chafik:
". . . tried to reassure himself . . . He told himself he dealt in facts . . . He would not let an imaginative boy and a moon-mad woman confound the evidence of his eyes . . ."
Resources:
- Previous encounters with the Super Detective Library's version of Inspector Chafik are (HERE) and (HERE).
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