9. Your life is at stake
My suspicions were confirmed early the next morning when I was awoken by the sound of the postman. I received two letters that morning. The first was delivered officially, with a stamp and an address. It was from Archie. It seems a morning’s snooping had led him to discover the dead man’s name. He’d been identified by some dockers as a foreigner by the name of Sanghar Khan, a well-known trickster and magician, who apparently kept food in his belly by performing magic shows for sailors and stevedores. He was a pretty nasty fellow by all accounts and not well liked, but his tricks were second to none and kept many a man entertained. Of those who knew him, it was thought he was Indian.
Archie also had some idea of the cause of death, kindly given to him by the poli
