<P> Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was `` The Hunchback 's Tale '' story cycle which , unlike `` The Three Apples '' , was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction . The story is set in a fictional China and begins with a hunchback , the emperor 's favourite comedian , being invited to dinner by a tailor couple . The hunchback accidentally chokes on his food from laughing too hard and the couple , fearful that the emperor will be furious , take his body to a Jewish doctor 's clinic and leave him there . This leads to the next tale in the cycle , the `` Tale of the Jewish Doctor '' , where the doctor accidentally trips over the hunchback 's body , falls down the stairs with him , and finds him dead , leading him to believe that the fall had killed him . The doctor then dumps his body down a chimney , and this leads to yet another tale in the cycle , which continues with twelve tales in total , leading to all the people involved in this incident finding themselves in a courtroom , all making different claims over how the hunchback had died . Crime fiction elements are also present near the end of `` The Tale of Attaf '' ( see Foreshadowing above ) . </P>
who was responsible for the death of the hunchback in the arabian nights tale
The hunchback accidentally chokes on his food from laughing too hard