Zarah Salah

Zarah Salah was the killer of fruit vendor Afif Wahab in I Spy a Mummy (Case #10 of World Edition).

Profile
Zarah is the 50-year-old Minister of antiquities. She has short black hair, two crescent-shaped earrings and wears lipstick. She dons a blue suit jacket with a scarab pin on it over a magenta shirt. It is known that Zarah eats pickled turnips, smokes hookah, and reads hieroglyphics.

Role in Case(s)
Zarah was interrogated by the player and Jack Archer after they found a plaque on the crime scene saying to call her in case of desecration. She confirmed the victim was Afif Wahab, a fruit vendor who worked by the Nile. When asked if anyone who would want to hurt him, she said he was a simple man. However, she said she heard there was trouble between him and another vendor. She asked if The Bureau will release the crime scene soon, Jack replied saying it will be once the killer is caught.

Zarah was interrogated again regarding a bunch of money belonging to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. She said she left the money in the tomb by mistake because she believed that Afif set up his stall by the Nile so he could steal from the pyramids. To catch him red-handed she set up a trap, she met him at the hookah bar saying she was a foreign traveler looking to buy antiquities. She convinced him to meet up at the pyramids for the swap, and saw the antiquity he was trying to sell her was a fake. When Jack suggested she killed him because he swindled her, she replied saying she turned him down and returned to the Ministry.

Despite her tale, she was eventually found out and was revealed to be Afif's killer. Denying the evidence at first, Zarah claimed that she simply wanted to catch the victim red-handed for stealing artifacts; however, Jack lambasted her by revealing that she had tracked the victim and lured him to the pyramid with a hookah pipe. When the elite force agent finished his summary of the evidence he and the player had collected, Zarah admitted to the crime, but she claimed that she had to do it because she had exposed herself as a thief. She continued to tell the player that no one knew what kinds of artifacts were in the tombs, and if she were to steal them, no one would miss them either. Zarah tried to bribe him with money, but Afif would not leave and clung to his fruit vending persona. With that said, Jack shipped Zarah to trial.

Judge Adaku believed that Zarah had abused her power as the Minister of antiquities to smuggle the artifacts out of the tomb. With the pleasure of locking up a corrupted government official, he sentenced Zarah to 50 years in prison for the attempted mummification and successful murder of Afif Wahab as well as for the theft of precious artifacts.

Case Appearances

 * I Spy a Mummy (Case #10 of World Edition)