The Sinister Man

This is a crime mystery novel that revolves around the murder of a professor. The body of a professor has been discovered floating in the Thames. Scotland Yard Superintendent Wills is invited to investigate the murder. It appears the victim was an archeology Oxford professor who had previously been studying the Kytang Wafers, an archeological artifact that is now missing. The wafers are fragments of an ancient text that could change relations between Red China and a Tibetan-style nation known as "Kytang." According to an autopsy, the professor was killed by a karate blow. Will the Scotland Yard investigator unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the professor and the missing artifact?