The Case Of The Elusive Bombay Duck
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The Case Of The Elusive Bombay Duck
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Release Date : 2025-03-04
The Case Of The Elusive Bombay Duck written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by Severn House Publishers Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-04 with Fiction categories.
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 Guardian When 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 fraudster codenamed 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.
The Case Of The Missing Servant
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-06-16
The Case Of The Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-16 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Case Of The Reincarnated Client
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Release Date : 2019-12-01
The Case Of The Reincarnated Client written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by Severn House Publishers Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with Fiction categories.
"Hilarious ... Hall’s plot is filled with engaging twists. Vish is a wonderfully realized character ... You can dive in anywhere in this series and be rewarded with a rich experience" – Booklist Starred Review A client claiming she was murdered in a past life is a novel dilemma even for Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. When a young woman comes forward claiming to be the reincarnation of Riya Kaur, a wife and mother who vanished during the bloody 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Puri is dismissive. He's busy enough dealing with an irate matrimonial client whose daughter is complaining about her groom’s thunderous snoring. Puri's indomitable Mummy-ji however is adamant the client is genuine. How else could she so accurately describe under hypnosis Riya Kaur's life and final hours? Driven by a sense of duty - the original case was his late father’s - Puri manages to acquire the police file only to find that someone powerful has orchestrated a cover-up. Forced into an alliance with his mother that tests his beliefs and high blood pressure as never before, it’s only by delving into the past the help of his reincarnated client that Puri can hope to unlock the truth.
Our Man In Malaya
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Author : Margaret Shennan
language : en
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Our Man In Malaya written by Margaret Shennan and has been published by Monsoon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The career of John Davis was inextricably and paradoxically intertwined with that of Chin Peng, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party and the man who was to become Britain’s chief enemy in the long Communist struggle for the soul of Malaya. When the Japanese invaded Malaya during WWII, John Davis escaped to Ceylon, sailing 1,700 miles in a Malay fishing boat, before planning the infiltration of Chinese intelligence agents and British officers back into the Malayan peninsula. With the support of Chin Peng and the cooperation of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army, Davis led SOE Force 136 into Japanese-occupied Malaya where he operated from camps deep in the jungle with Freddy Spencer Chapman and fellow covert agents. Yet Davis was more than a wartime hero. Following the war, he was heavily involved in Malayan Emergency affairs: squatter control, the establishment of New Villages and, vitally, of tracking down and confronting his old adversary Chin Peng and the communist terrorists. Historian and biographer Margaret Shennan, born and raised in Malaya and an expert on the British in pre-independence Malaysia, tells the extraordinary, untold story of John Davis, CBE, DSO, an iconic figure in Malaya’s colonial history. Illustrated with Davis’ personal photographs and featuring correspondence between Davis and Chin Peng, this is a story which truly deserves to be told.
The Case Of The Deadly Butter Chicken
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2012-06-26
The Case Of The Deadly Butter Chicken written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with Fiction categories.
"These books are little gems. They are beautifully written, amusing, and intensely readable." —Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Long-held secrets, deadly lies, a sports scandal, and a poisoned helping of butter chicken—all in a day's work for the head of India's Most Private Investigators, in this latest book in the delightful Vish Puri detective series. When the father of a Pakistani star cricket player falls dead during a glamorous India Premier League dinner, clearly it isn't just a case of Delhi Belly. But which of the VIPs at the victim's table is responsible for poisoning the man's butter chicken? And was the victim killed for his involvement with a gambling syndicate that controls cricket's illegal billion-dollar betting industry? The answers seem to lie across the border in Pakistan—the one country Puri swore he would never set foot in. Or do they? For Puri's beloved Mummy-ji, who has a unique insight into the killing, believes there is much more to this murder than meets the eye. Puri and Mummy-ji's search for the truth will lead them to uncover decades-old secrets and tragedies thought best forgotten in their most compelling case yet.
Butter Chicken In Ludhiana
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Author : Pankaj Mishra
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2006
Butter Chicken In Ludhiana written by Pankaj Mishra and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
A travel book about small-town India, where the village and the city, the folk and the kitsch, and the comic and the violent threaten to converge.
Sikkim
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Author : Andrew Duff
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2015-05-14
Sikkim written by Andrew Duff and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with History categories.
This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975. It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkim's independence after their 'fairytale' wedding in 1963. As tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile, a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkim's leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the world's major powers jostled for regional supremacy during the early 1970s Sikkim and its ruling family never stood a chance. On the eve of declaring an Emergency across India, Indira Gandhi outwitted everyone to bring down the curtain on the 300 year-old Namgyal dynasty. Based on interviews and archive research, as well as a retracing of a journey the author's grandfather made in 1922, this is a thrilling, romantic and informative glimpse of a real-life Shangri-La. 'Clearly the most comprehensive account so far of Sikkim's fall... a masterly skill in story-telling' - Calcutta Telegraph
The Philosophy Of Mr Nehru
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Author : Jawaharlal Nehru
language : en
Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 1966
The Philosophy Of Mr Nehru written by Jawaharlal Nehru and has been published by London : Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with India categories.
Calcutta Diary
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Author : Ashok Mitra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Calcutta Diary written by Ashok Mitra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Literary Collections categories.
Islamic Havoc In Indian History
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Author : Purushottam N. Oak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-04-01
Islamic Havoc In Indian History written by Purushottam N. Oak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-01 with categories.
Anthology of highly acclaimed anecdotes from history of India under Mohammedan occupation, previously published between 1966-68 in Late Babu Rao Patel's MOTHER INDIA Magazine of Bombay. At the time, the Nehru government had unsuccessfully tried to suppress the individual articles. Demand from the public, students of history & research scholars have prompted publication of the present volume, with all the anecdotes in one place. The edition with 71 illustrations, also contains the true story on the Taj Mahal; that it was not built by Shahjahan, that it was a Hindu Temple commandeered by the Moslem sultan; that the recently performed CARBON TESTING had proved that the Taj had been built at least 300 years PRIOR TO Shahjahan's birth. The book also provides in original Persian, a facsimile of the two vital pages from the BADSHAHNAMA chronicle, divulging the original ownership of the Taj Mahal. Here is a book for those interested in Indian history under Islamic rule & preached by subsequent lackeys & dilettantes. Mail order only. Direct order line: (Tel. & FAX: 713-778-0960).