Bad Day at the Vulture Club by Vaseem Khan

Author:Vaseem Khan [Khan, Vaseem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cThriller, humorous, amazon
ISBN: 9781473685390
Google: JsZuDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2019-08-07T22:00:00+00:00

Bringing back the dead

At precisely ten the next morning Chopra and Inspector Malini Sheriwal entered the autopsy suite at the Sahar Hospital.

The corpses had been divested of their cadaver bags and laid out on the room’s two steel autopsy tables. Homi had pulled on scrubs and was fiddling with his recording equipment.

Chopra and Sheriwal watched him from an anteroom adjoining the suite, peering in through a Plexiglas viewing window as he prepared to get down to work. Homi’s voice filtered nasally through a speaker located beside the window.

Homi had been joined in the suite by an Australian forensic anthropologist, a white man by the name of Decker Coin.

Coin was the first Australian Chopra had met in the flesh, though he had seen plenty onscreen, and a few hurling themselves around the Wankhede Stadium when the Australian cricket team toured India. Coin did not fit the mould of the average Aussie that Chopra had discovered lodged unwittingly inside his head. There was no mop of bleach-blond hair, no rugged chin, no flinty eyes squinting into the horizon. Coin was a small man with an abnormally large and preternaturally bald head. This bowling ball of a pate reminded Chopra of volcanic protrusions; it was a fiery red in colour as if the superheated mind within had literally boiled the hair from Coin’s skull. He wore yellow-framed glasses, a red polka-dot bow tie and braces, as if he had just come from the stock exchange. The only thing Australian about Coin was his strong Tasmanian accent, and the ‘CUDDLY KOALA? THINK AGAIN’ badge pinned to his shirt. Chopra peered closer. Under the badge’s bold header, in smaller script, were the words: Koalas are nasty, aggressive and spread chlamydia.

The anthropologist had flown in from New Delhi that morning.

Homi, in his search for expert advice, had alighted on Coin’s profile, and then, to his delight, discovered that he was already in India for a research meeting at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

The pair chatted for a while, before Homi signalled to his assistant, Rohit, who had been roped into manning the video camera, and was slumped behind it in his bottle-green scrubs like the eternal bridesmaid.

Homi swivelled to face the camera, coughed ostentatiously, and began: ‘My name is Dr Homi Contractor, Chair of the College of Cardiac Physicians and Surgeons of Mumbai. I am joined at the Sahar Hospital in Mumbai by Dr Decker Coin, Head of the Forensic Anthropology Research Group at Griffith University in Australia. Dr Coin is a recognised expert in the identification of human remains and has worked extensively with the Australian Defence Force to identify recovered servicemen. Dr Coin will assist me as I attempt to use a technique known as forensic facial reconstruction in order to aid in the identification of these two cadavers’ – he waved at the autopsy tables – ‘Unnamed Male 1 and Unnamed Female 1. This will be the first time such a technique has been employed in India. The bodies have been interred for a

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