The Case of the Missing Servant: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator (Vish Puri Mysteries (Paperback)) - Softcover

Hall, Tarquin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439172374 ISBN 13: 9781439172377

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Hall turns to fiction with the debut of what promises to be an outstanding series....An excellent, delightfully humorous mystery with an unforgettable cast of characters, The Case of the Missing Servant immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Speaking of sweet stuff, consider The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall. This first novel is set in Delhi, where Vish Puri, found and director of Most Private Investigators, Ltd., performs discreet investigations into the backgrounds of prospective grooms, with surprising and often comic results."
--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

Acclaimed writer Tarquin Hall makes his fiction debut with an Indian detective story

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439172374
• ISBN 13: 9781439172377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336