The Laughing Corpse

A 1957 Urdu detective novel, translated by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. Book #62 of the Jasusi Dunya Series. 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. Meanwhile, the American arch-criminal Doctor Dread is still at large in the city... and so is his nemesis, the mysterious monkey-faced killer named Finch.