Tarquin Hall
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The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck
Portly, perceptive and spectacularly moustachioed, India?s finest private detective, Vish Puri, tackles his most difficult case to date in the long-awaited return of Tarquin Hall?s delightful humorous whodunit series set in New Delhi.?Vish Puri is the Indian Poirot? Financial Times?A wonderfully engaging PI? The Times?Vish Puri [is] a Punjabi Sherlock Holmes? The GuardianWhen Vish Puri, India?s Most Private Detective, learns he?s won the long-coveted International Detective of the Year award, it?s supposed to be a secret. But within hours, it seems all of Delhi knows ? and his indomitable Mummy-ji announces she?ll be coming with him to the ceremony in London, never mind that she?s not been invited.To add to his woes, a senior government bureaucrat gives him an undercover mission he can?t refuse. Puri is tasked with tracking down India?s most-wanted fugitive: a billionaire pharmaceutical fraudstercodenamed Bombay Duck, who?s rumoured to be hiding in the British capital.Puri?s only spending a week in London . . . and he?s already promised his wife he won?t work during their once-in-a-lifetime trip. In desperation, he enlists the help of his reluctant nephew Jags and dives headfirst into the case. But can Puri hook the Bombay Duck and bring him to justice ? all the while keeping his investigations secret from his wife and meddling mother?Packed with the sights, sounds and flavours of both New Delhi and London, author Tarquin Hall ? who divides his time between India and the UK ? delivers an irresistible read for fans of Alexander McCall Smith, Harini Nagendra and Jesse Sutanto.
Case of Man Who Died Laughing
Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali appears, and strikes one of their number dead. The goddess disappears without trace, and soon news of the crime has all India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic and rationalist Dr Suresh Jha, enemy of all gurus and mystics, and he has been silenced in a manner calculated to unnerve even his most loyal supporters. As the media go into a frenzy, it becomes clear that the case goes to the heart of the battle between superstition and rationality in modern India. But the fact remains that a murder has been committed. And as it becomes clear that powerful forces are at play, one man is perfectly placed to investigate: the portly detective Vish Puri. In fact, the idea that he could resist getting involved in such a tantalizing murder is preposterous. There is as much chance of him going without his lunch.
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