Inspector Chafik J. Chafik of the Baghdad police was the creation of Charles B. Child (1903-1993), the pseudonym of British author Claude Vernon Frost. As a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Airforce 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 maze."  This is the original artwork created for the cover of one in Crippen & Landru's "The lost classic series" by Child, the published 2002 (I show the cover for your reference)   Handpainted in acrylics on unstretched canvas, 7.5" x 11" and signed by Heyer bottom right.