Desperation: Private Detective Ahmed Mystery Short Stories

By S. H. Miah

Detective Ahmed Hakeem, the wittiest detective always down on his luck.

 

A dead man, lying over a dumpster, with his guts festering in the trash below. Police can't get anywhere, and Ahmed's called into help.

 

As he and his ace assistant Yunus Amir pore over the crime scene, the case deepens in a way they could've never imagined.

 

And Ahmed risks it all in the name of justice.

 

A short story in the world of Detective Ahmed. If you like dry wit with mysteries to die for, then these stories are for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Muslim Fiction Project
• Release date: Aug 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223943686

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Desperation

A Detective Ahmed Short Story

S. H. Miah

Muslim Fiction Project

Copyright © 2023 by S. H. Miah

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This publication is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Desperation

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Desperation

As Detective Ahmed Hakeem stared at the crime scene, with his ace assistant Yunus Amir, he decided there weren't many things worse than being thrown over an alleyway dumpster, left to rot with your stomach cut open and organs spilling out into the festering garbage below.

The stench was horrid. A foul mixture of blood and guts, coppery and metallic once the smell reached Ahmed's tongue, and devilishly potent, as if the killer had spilt some chemical to worsen the effects of the smell.

The night swirled around them like a tornado honing in on the crime scene as its central point. The deadly silence surrounding the man lying dead with his legs half out of the dumpster was palpable, like a monster eating away at their skins, prodding and challenging them to solve this one.

The man was young,