The earliest known murder mystery[29][30] and suspense thriller with multiple plot twists[31] and detective fiction elements[32] was “The Three Apples”, also known as Hikayat al-sabiyya ‘l-muqtula (“The Tale of the Murdered Young Woman”),[33] one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights. In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces. Harun orders his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and find the murdererer within three days or else he will have him executed instead. This whodunit mystery may thus be considered an archetype for detective fiction. Ja’far, however, fails to find the culprit before the deadline.[34][35] Just when Harun is about to have Ja’far executed for his failure, a plot twist occurs when two men appear, one a handsome young m