Vanished in Drawer 17: The Missing Body

At 2:13 a.m., a corpse simply vanished from the state mortuary in Benin City. Nurses stared in shock when the compartment marked Drawer 17 stood empty. The missing body belonged to Chief Monday Ekanem, a wealthy transport magnate who had died under mysterious circumstances three days earlier. Rumours swirled around his death, and now someone had risked everything to seize his remains. Detective Inspector David Eze arrived before dawn and knew at once this was no random theft. Someone had come specifically for Ekanem. As police sealed the scene, one more person had gone missing that night—a mortuary cleaner.

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