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The Mistress of Bhatia House, July 2023
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The Bombay Prince, February 2021
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The Satapur Moonstone, May 2019
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The Widows of Malabar Hill, November 2018
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The Widows of Malabar Hill, January 2018
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The Sleeping Dictionary, August 2013
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The Typhoon Lover, September 2006
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THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL
By: Sujata Massey

Mystery of 1920s Bombay
Soho Crime
January 2018
On Sale: January 9, 2018
400 pages
ISBN: 1616957786
EAN: 9781616957780
Kindle: B07226BHDG
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Woman Sleuth

Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with an Oxford, legal education, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women’s legal rights.

Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn’t even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women’s quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger.

Inspired in part by a real woman who made history by becoming India’s first female lawyer, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth, Perveen Mistry.