Hints and tips:
...Sent to investigate is an aristocratic, eccentrically named detective, St John Strafford, from whose perspective the story is told. Of course, he’s a misfit, a “Prod” in a land dominated by Catholics....
...A British police detective who said he spoke by telephone to a woman who claimed to be Sheikha Shamsa then investigated her abduction claims....
...Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban, calls the killing a “watershed moment”....
...It is believed, though, that UK detectives have flown to Pakistan to liaise with the authorities there....
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