The Case Of The Missing Servant
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The Case Of The Missing Servant
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-03-30
The Case Of The Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with Fiction categories.
_________________________________________ 'Great fun' The Times 'The smell of chat and kachoris seems to waft from the page' Daily Telegraph Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres 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. How will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking pot shots at him and his prize chilli plants? And why is his widowed 'Mummy-ji' attempting to play sleuth when everyone knows Mummies are not detectives? With his team of undercover operatives - Tubelight, Flush and Facecream - Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago -- long before 'that Johnny-come-lately' Sherlock Holmes donned his Deerstalker. The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur and the remote mines of Jharkhand. From his well-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live, Puri's adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.
The Case Of The Missing Servant
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-05-04
The Case Of The Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-04 with Fiction categories.
Watch out Alexander McCall Smith! Here comes the first novel by the highly acclaimed writer Tarquin Hall in an entrancing new mystery series set in India. The portly Vish Puri is India’s most accomplished detective, at least in his own estimation, and is also the hero of an irresistible new mystery series set in hot, dusty Delhi. Puri’s detective skills are old-fashioned in a Sherlock Holmesian way and a little out of sync with the tempo of the modern city, but Puri is clever and his methods work. The Case of the Missing Servant shows Puri (“Chubby” to his friends) and his wonderfully nicknamed employees (among them, Handbrake, Flush, and Handcream) hired for two investigations. The first is into the background of a man surprisingly willing to wed a woman her father considers unmarriageable, and the second is into the disappearance six months earlier of a servant to a prominent Punjabi lawyer, a young woman known only as Mary. The Most Private Investigator novels offer a delicious combination of ingenious stories, brilliant writing, sharp wit, and a vivid, unsentimental picture of contemporary India. And from the first to the last page run an affectionate humour and intelligent insights into both the subtleties of Indian culture and the mysteries of human behaviour.
The Case Of The Man Who Died Laughing
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2011-06-07
The Case Of The Man Who Died Laughing 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 2011-06-07 with Fiction categories.
The delightful, amusing, and deeply mysterious second novel to feature Vish Puri, a man after Hercule Poirot's heart, in a series that has already won diehard fans on three continents. The bizarre murder of an Indian scientist in public by the goddess Kali is no laughing matter. Yet Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga class when the hideous deity appears from the mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The case is a first in the "annals of crime" according to Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators. To get at the truth, Puri and his team of unstoppable undercover operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum, home of India's ancestral magicians, to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges — entering a world in which illusion and the supernatural are virtually indistinguishable.
The Case Of The Girl In Grey The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency Book 2
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Author : Jordan Stratford
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2016-01-26
The Case Of The Girl In Grey The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency Book 2 written by Jordan Stratford and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-26 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This history-mystery series continues with another fine display of brains and bravery from the Wollstonecraft Girls—Ada Bryon Lovelace and Mary Shelley. Inspired fun for middle grade readers and fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and Lemony Snicket! The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency was supposed to be a secret constabulary, but after the success of their first case, all of London knows that Lady Ada and Mary are the girls to go to if you have a problem. Their new case is a puzzle indeed. It involves a horrible hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a suspiciously slippery servant. But Mary’s stumbled onto a mystery of her own. She spotted a ghostly girl in a grey gown dashing through the park. A girl who is the spitting image of their new client. The two cases must be linked . . . or else there’s a perfectly supernatural explanation.
The Loyal Servant
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Author : Eva Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Two Pies Press
Release Date : 2022-10-04
The Loyal Servant written by Eva Hudson and has been published by Two Pies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction, The Loyal Servant is a fast-paced murder mystery and chart-topping political thriller. "A brilliantly-paced thriller... Perfectly balanced between character and plot. Very gripping and suspenseful" - Sophie Hannah Caroline Barber is a civil servant who is busy at work trying to avoid being laid off, and busy at home holding her noisy and demanding family together. Her dull daily routine is shattered when she discovers her boss – a senior politician – dead at his desk. Although the pills and whiskey bottle point to suicide, Caroline is certain he would never take his own life. Unable to accept the official version of events, she sets out to uncover the real reason the minister had to die and quickly discovers a web of secrets and lies spun by some very powerful men. Enlisting the help of a ruthless newspaper reporter, Caroline continues to dig, taking greater and greater risks until she uncovers a conspiracy shocking enough to bring down the government. Out of her depth and putting the safety of her family in jeopardy, will Caroline get the chance to expose the corruption? Or will she be silenced for good? A murder mystery with a killer twist: everything that happens to Caroline could happen to you. Anyone who's ever worked in an office should download this book now. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. Praise for The Loyal Servant "Deftly plotted, tightly paced and above all, very well written" "Cracking fast paced crime thriller, with many twists and turns" "A must read for any lover of thrillers, the fast pace and cliff hangers leave you unable to put it down" ABOUT EVA HUDSON After years of enjoying thrillers and police procedurals by authors like Lee Child and Michael Connelly, Eva was inspired to write thrillers herself. In 2011 she won the inaugural Lucy Cavendish fiction prize for her first novel, The Loyal Servant.
The Galton Case
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Author : Ross Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-07-05
The Galton Case written by Ross Macdonald and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Fiction categories.
Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde - reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill. The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.
The Case Of The Reincarnated Client
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Author : Tarquin Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-29
The Case Of The Reincarnated Client written by Tarquin Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with categories.
Vish Puri discovers that his mother is looking into an unsolved cold case of his late father's - the disappearance of a young housewife named Riya Kaur. Mummy-ji's found a new witness who believes she's the reincarnation of the missing woman. Forced into an alliance with his mother, Puri must delve into Delhi's past in order to unlock the truth.
Servant Of The Underworld
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Author : Aliette de Bodard
language : en
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-01-05
Servant Of The Underworld written by Aliette de Bodard and has been published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Fiction categories.
The first book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztecs. Human sacrifice and the magic of the living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead--except that his estranged brother is involved, and the the more he digs, the deeper he is drawn into the political and magical intrigues of noblemen, soldiers, and priests-and of the gods themselves... REVIEWS: ‘ gripping mystery steeped in blood and ancient Aztec magic. I was enthralled.’ — Sean Williams ‘An Aztec priest of the dead tries to solve a murder mystery, and finds that politics may be even more powerful than magic. A vivid portrayal of an interesting culture in a truly fresh fantasy novel.’ — Kevin J. Anderson ‘Amid the mud and maize of the Mexica empire, Aliette de Bodard has composed a riveting story of murder, magic and sibling rivalry.’ — Elizabeth Bear ‘The world-building is exquisite and we *believe* we are transported to the 15th century Tenotichtlan and together with the superb voice they formed the main reason I enjoyed this book so much... Highly recommended... Ms. de Bodard is a writer to watch.’ — Fantasy Book Critic
Aarushi
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Author : Avirook Sen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-07-05
Aarushi written by Avirook Sen and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-05 with Literary Collections categories.
The murders that gripped the nation Seven years ago a teenage girl, Aarushi Talwar, was found murdered in her bedroom in Noida, a middle-class suburb of Delhi. The body of the prime suspect—the family servant, Hemraj—was discovered a day later. Who had committed the double murders, and why? Within weeks, Aarushi’s parents, the Talwars, were accused; four years later, they went on trial and were convicted. But did they do it? Avirook Sen attended the trial, accessed important documents and interviewed all the players—from Aarushi’s friends to Hemraj’s old boss, from the investigators to the forensic scientists—to write a meticulous and chilling book that reads like a thriller but also tells a story that is horrifyingly true. Aarushi is the definitive account of a sensational crime, and the investigation and trial that followed.
Servant Leadership Models For Your Parish
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Author : Dan R. Ebener
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 2010
Servant Leadership Models For Your Parish written by Dan R. Ebener and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
Servant Leadership Models for Your Parish explores the practice of servant leadership in a church context. It presents seven behaviors practiced by leaders and members in high-performing parishes and provides real-life examples of these practices. The unique contribution of this work to the national discussion about parish life and leadership is its description of servant leadership and its explanation of how it works in a parish. This work suggests that parish life can be viewed in light of business principles such as the organizational behaviors of leaders and members in a Christian parish, and religious teaching, particularly the message of Jesus, who taught leaders to be servants and members to be disciples. Intended for pastors and parish leaders, pastoral associates and deacons, parish staff and lay members of parishes who are interested in leadership, it is sure to be indispensable reading for anyone who is interested in changing or improving the leadership, the activities, and the culture of their parish. +