"Ya ustath, yes yes, very upsetting, very upsetting, please tell us one more time everything you be seeing. Slowly slowly please, ya ustath!"

You tell them again. The invitation left with the hotel concierge, the talks, the other guests, the baklava, Ibrahim's collapse. You are sure to point out every erroneous opinion voiced by the other guests. You wave your red ticket angrily in their faces.

All in all, you think it's a very convincing performance that does the police no good whatsoever.

The whole time, the list of names you saw in Ibrahim's notebook runs over and over in the back of your mind. They are,

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Abu Aziz, the infamous French-Algerian pirate.

Herr Baumgarten, the wealthy German industrialist.

Comrade Pyatnitsa, the renegade Russian anarchist.

Miss Abernathy, the brilliant American heiress.

One of them killed Ibrahim. They may have been trying to kill you, they may have been trying to deny you a ticket, they may have had reasons of their own.

You will need to choose an ally among them if you want to take on the other three.