back home he quickly changes into his sleeping suit, he hears asif coming asking for him, he had to explain he was the day before in tarjaam , he had met the professor, he is informed that the previous night the professor had been murdered
anwer sees an open window, nodding assurance to himself he knows he is alone and the mysterious woman client had arranged everything as promised for his security, he hears suddenly some voices coming closer , , recognising the voice of the investigating officer , also his friend asif he jumps out of the window and returns home
anwer decides he should let his curiosity run wild with him, at night after eleven he silently sneaks out, on his bike to the professor"s secluded mansion standing near the sea, surrounded for miles with mango groves , he had the key to the main east facing entrance, second of the main lobby and third of the collection of rare gems to the right
anwer is a reporter , he goes to tarjaam hills to verify if the professor was really visiting his gemologist friend"s showroom in that area, though it was odd to have a gems and precious stones showrooms in such a remote hilly village away from a crowded city where its more paying and profitable
- No entrances, no walls
- Where do the vagabonds live
- Chipped, broken, torn feet
- Endless journey, no destinations
- Who lives in here
- Who is looked for about
- The sky fallen down on me
- Yet I unaware
- Aimless lost traveller
- Disapearing in traverse
anwer had waited too long, he was thinking of leaving when a young woman pretty but not extraordinary beauty arrived at the cabin, she wanted him to pledge secrecy whether he did or not work for her , she was also there on someone else's behalf, the black stolen sapphire -also known as Star piece , was to be returned to the professor taimur"s collection , placed safely back into the showcase the next day when he would be not home
anwer looks around him, sitting and smoking his cigarette in a rather terribly cheap hotel, amazed at the reason why he was invited to such a place, where the proprietor had done his best to make his hotel appear a look alike of a high standard hotel, but poor management, bad service , layers of dust everywhere including on the curtained cabins on a side , on the decorations and pictures on the walls, between spaces where instructions to the customers were given read unconnected lines like -avoid political discussions, almighty has promised the end of the world, buy national saving certificates
kathy has a secret document on her for her friend by his brother, the original map of the hidden treasure is also with her, she needs secrecy in executing her plans, a partner like sumo - a japanese bar - tender loyal to her to be her companion on the voyage, she cunningly engages sumo to agree to go with her
salha abedalkarim gets a new case she solves easily, faridah ishmail doubts and frames alligations on her dughter-in-law of killing faidah's son , losing her case at the session court faridah approaches the expert specialist who procures evidence that faridah was absolutely right
alice thinks the manager of the inn would be some old rough man but it turned out to be a young woman, alice had lots of packed food with her but decides to get some thing from the market that closed down by five, too early , she is told to go to the back door entrance to get things, the woman in the kitchen tells her estel was a widow who liked the company of men more than women , she was the light of such pub gatherings , alice had enough to last her a week yet she goes to the pub, at the counter stands a woman who smilingly gives her a glass of white wine and tells her her husband tells all new tourists that it was a special day and they need not pay
alice packs her travel bag, decides to go to devon to find out how and why and whats of her friend estel "s murder case, taking M3 motorway she reaches devon in four hours, she needed a drink and orders white wine at the bar, the man says it was lady"s day she need not pay for it, she stays in the same holiday home her friend estel had inherited , it was odd for a woman to live there alone, like estel did, like alice did
for alice, the newspapers contained stale and similar news everyday, her husband left for work, she usually ignored the headlines , but this day one headline caught her attention , a woman in devon village holiday home was found murdered, estel was an extraordinary name for a woman but not new for alice, for her classmate estel was raised in an orphanage was with her throughout till they went to college together since primary school, may be there were other esrels but the dead woman had a rose tattoo she clearly remembered her friend estel had on her left shoulder
the narrator reminiscenses his life of thirty years ago, it was full, exciting, adventurous when he hunted in jungles and fished in the rivers, he was sent to a village near the river narbada on official posting one day unwell he stayed in bed when he heard voices of girls screaming , jumping out he reached the river to find a young woman was carried away by the deadly sea creature--her death trap--a crocodile
Mr Trumble is a private detective, hired by clark- an attorney of copyrights to find out with whom his lovely wife goes about in his absence, trumble knows usually clients share all their fears and secrets easily with him they would not with others , for two weeks he follows the beauty, she spends twice a week lunching multi course meals with clark in a french restaurant that has seven storey hotel built above it, there they have private moments in a pent house suite , weekends they spend together , and the rest of the time she stays home quietly in her polished marble and glass mirror palatial mansion
not sure whether rockel was making fun, or being serious when she said he looked a detective or a historical figure placed behind the office desk, they had to tag the items, make a list of the exhibits,, choosing to start with an old box, that had rusted bolts, no locks, easy to open, they find it contained old bullets neatly stacked inside
owens - one time detective turned manager , working with rockel in a private office , celebrate fifty years of the end of the second world war, advertising in newspapers to the locals of the county to contribute , donate and lend things associated with the war,
first person narrative of a free lancer photographer, he plans to expose a beautiful upcoming new hollywood actress laila, whose beau is a national baseballer of american team, though not known to her other admirers who orbit her, scorching, themselves, falling off dead, succumbing to her charms, spending their all on her, soon to be replaced by new sweethearts
victor runs a race horse stable, depressed sitting at a bar meets lidya who asks for a match box to lght her cigarette, leaves her home address on the match box hidden in her hand glove on his table, it was a cold winter evening between seven thirty and eight , cloudy over the sombre sea, a man thinking he was eddie warns him to stay away from lidya
shaistah suggests that he should ask for half share of her wealth , then separate , give her a divorce or if she refuses to give in he could give her threats of destroying her good reputation, she would not like to live a life of blemish
