The Impossible Murder of Headless in Houston

A headless victim in a locked room...an impossible murder

A headless mystery writer is found in a locked room that no one could have left without leaving the door unlocked. When the room is broken into, there is no head, no weapon, and no murderer. The only way the killer could have left the room is through the door that has just been forced open. And the late decapitated mystery writer, George Zimaresh, has left a note with cryptic clues for Dr. Imogene Chaplin, the pathologist on the scene. The only problem is that Chaplin didn’t know Zimaresh, and Zimaresh couldn’t have known her. And yet…

It’s not enough that Imogene Chaplin is a diagnostic pathologist who doesn’t like doing autopsies or forensics. She is only doing this job on a temporary basis, reluctantly. Now she is sucked into this investigation. She must solve this apparently impossible murder before she ends up being a victim herself.

"A surgical pathologist struggles to solve a locked-room mystery in Diwan’s smart, modern take on classic detective fiction...A compelling read for fans of detective stories." Kirkus Reviews

Hafeez Diwan is a skin pathologist in Houston, Texas. He is the author of How to Love Obnoxious People - and Why? The Life-Changing Art and Science of Loving Truly Horrible People, How to Have Instant Willpower Right Away, and the young adult novels Victor Moody the Mosquito-Boy and Faploom-Japloom and The Great Lion Escape: The Same Different Place, Book One (with Sara Diwan)