Doctor Dread, 200 pages, R250 The Laughing Corpse, 128 pages, R200 Smokewater, 124 pages, R200 Poisoned Arrow, 124 pages, R200
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All by Ibne Safi
and all translated by Shamshur Rahman Faruqi
Blaft Publications/Tranquebar Press
Four new titles in translation from the master of Urdu suspense. The novels feature wealthy widows being blackmailed by mysterious foreigners, young girls who suddenly inherit vast estates, tycoons who disappear, and shadowy underworld networks.
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