THE UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE OF INSPECTOR CHOPRA

Vaseem KHAN

ISBN 10: 1473612284 / ISBN 13: 9781473612280

Published by Mulholland Books, 2015

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This is a B format paperback (130 x 198 mm) with a single #4 as the number sequence indicating a 4th printing. Read once very carefully. A Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation. SYNOPSIS: "On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For Chopra has one last case to solve. But as his murder investigation leads him across Mumbai - from its richest mansions to its murky underworld - he quickly discovers that a baby elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs. So begins the start of a quite unexpected partnership, and an utterly delightful new series." IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE UNEXPECTED INHERITANCE OF INSPECTOR CHOPRA
• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473612284
• ISBN 13: 9781473612280
• Binding: Softback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket

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Synopsis

Selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020

Mumbai, murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce.

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For Chopra has one last case to solve...

But as his murder investigation leads him across Mumbai - from its richest mansions to its murky underworld - he quickly discovers that a baby elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs.

So begins the start of a quite unexpected partnership, and an utterly delightful series from the award-winning author of the Malabar House novels.

About the Author

Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay.

His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.

Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.