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...families staying at Khem Villas, the 15-room guesthouse opened by Rathore and his wife Usha 2 1?2 miles (4 km) from the park entrance in October 2006, slurped guava juice and pulled their camp chairs closer to the fire to escape the evening chill. Rathore's tiger whodunit featured local farmers who had plowed deep into the tiger's habitat and faraway medicine makers in China and Southeast Asia who paid extravagant bounties for tiger bones and genitals. He introduced his father Fateh Singh Rathore, a former director of the park who collaborated in Indira Gandhi's tiger...
...commissioned officer, goes in search of him. It soon becomes clear that his son was murdered and dismembered near a military base where he was temporarily reassigned, the chief suspects being four buddies with whom he served overseas. But In the Valley of Elah is not so much a whodunit as a whydunnit, an investigation of why a group of quite ordinary American soldiers would find themselves involved in such a brutal and essentially meaningless crime...
Like a classic whodunit, the case of Pakistan's murdered cricket coach Bob Woolmer remains unsolved, the tension slowly building as police methodically investigate the crime. But at the same time, like the best novels in the murder-mystery genre, the Woolmer case is less compelling for the banal details of the evil act than for what it reveals about the cricket playing world...
...Diana Whodunit New report on Princess's demise Former London police chief John Stevens will release the results this week of a three-year British inquiry into Di's death. The inquest used cutting-edge technology to reconstruct the crash...
...that, as yet, remains unproved. Meanwhile, a slew of whodunit theories are jostling for prominence. Following an autopsy that spurred the police to treat Litvinenko's death as a murder, Scotland Yard antiterrorism officers have been combing sites all over London, while colleagues traveled to Moscow. "This continues to be an extremely complex investigation, and detectives are pursuing many lines of inquiry," said a police spokeswoman. Litvinenko's excruciating and sinister death and the swirl of international politics around it make this a case worthy of John le Carré, but as the police insist, the classic questions of any murder...