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The Case of the Missing Servant

2009-06-16 Fiction
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Release : 2009-06-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 021/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Case of the Missing Servant by : Tarquin Hall

Download or read book The Case of the Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall. This book was released on 2009-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review). Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives—Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream—Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.

The Case of the Missing Servant

2010-05-04 Fiction
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Release : 2010-05-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Case of the Missing Servant by : Tarquin Hall

Download or read book The Case of the Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall. This book was released on 2010-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out Alexander McCall Smith! Here comes the first novel by the highly acclaimed writer Tarquin Hall in an entrancing new mystery series set in India. The portly Vish Puri is India’s most accomplished detective, at least in his own estimation, and is also the hero of an irresistible new mystery series set in hot, dusty Delhi. Puri’s detective skills are old-fashioned in a Sherlock Holmesian way and a little out of sync with the tempo of the modern city, but Puri is clever and his methods work. The Case of the Missing Servant shows Puri (“Chubby” to his friends) and his wonderfully nicknamed employees (among them, Handbrake, Flush, and Handcream) hired for two investigations. The first is into the background of a man surprisingly willing to wed a woman her father considers unmarriageable, and the second is into the disappearance six months earlier of a servant to a prominent Punjabi lawyer, a young woman known only as Mary. The Most Private Investigator novels offer a delicious combination of ingenious stories, brilliant writing, sharp wit, and a vivid, unsentimental picture of contemporary India. And from the first to the last page run an affectionate humour and intelligent insights into both the subtleties of Indian culture and the mysteries of human behaviour.

The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing

2010-06-01 Fiction
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Release : 2010-06-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 562/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing written by Tarquin Hall. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delightful, amusing, and deeply mysterious second novel to feature Vish Puri, a man after Hercule Poirot's heart, in a series that has already won diehard fans on three continents. The bizarre murder of an Indian scientist in public by the goddess Kali is no laughing matter. Yet Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga class when the hideous deity appears from the mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The case is a first in the "annals of crime" according to Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators. To get at the truth, Puri and his team of unstoppable undercover operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum, home of India's ancestral magicians, to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges — entering a world in which illusion and the supernatural are virtually indistinguishable.

The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken

2013-06-04 Fiction
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Release : 2013-06-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken by : Tarquin Hall

Download or read book The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken written by Tarquin Hall. This book was released on 2013-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustachioed sleuth Vish Puri tackles his greatest fears in a case involving the poisoning death of the elderly father of a leading Pakistani cricketer, whose demise is linked to the Indian and Pakistani mafias and the violent 1947 partition of India.

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

2010-04-01 Fiction
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Release : 2010-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Lost Books of the Odyssey by : Zachary Mason

Download or read book The Lost Books of the Odyssey written by Zachary Mason. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.

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