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The Sleuth of Baghdad: The Inspector Chafik Stories Style:Trade Softcover tales much admired by peersCharles B. Child book Inspector Chafik J. Chafik of the Baghdad Police Force was the creation of Charles B. Child (1903 1993), was the pseudonym of British author Claude Vernon Frost. As a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force he worked with Military Intelligence in Iraq during the Second World War. Child wrote that Inspector Chafik was a composite of associates whom he met in the Middle East, whose "agile minds" could "wind through a complicated