The Affair at Semiramis Hotel

is the second in the Inspector Hanuad series. His rich, loyal but bumbling friend, Mr. Ricardo, is bored out of his skull. Worse, Hanuad reenters his life only to deepen his depression by telling him he has just returned from solving an exciting case—without Ricardo. But never fear! There is soon an unconscious young opera singer, missing pearls, the pearls' dead owner, and a young mescal drug user from whom the young woman seeks help. A short novella full of twists and turns.