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The Case Of The Missing Servant
Tarquin Hall
A Vish Puri Mystery
Simon & Schuster
June 2009
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Featuring: Vish Puri
320 pages
ISBN: 1416583688
EAN: 9781416583684
Hardcover
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Multicultural Indian | Mystery
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. How will he trace the fate of the girl, known
only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? Who
is taking potshots at him and his prize chili plants? And
why is his widowed "Mummy-ji" attempting to play sleuth when
everyone knows mummies are not detectives? With his team of undercover operatives -- Tubelight, Flush,
and Facecream -- Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques
with principles of detection established in India more than
two thousand years ago -- long before "that
Johnny-come-lately" Sherlock Holmes donned his deerstalker. The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur
and the remote mines of Jharkhand. From Puri's well-heeled
Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live,
his adventures reveal modern India in all its seething
complexity.
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