The Case of the Missing Servant

By Tarquin Hall

_________________________________________&#39;Great fun&#39; The Times&#39;The smell of chat and kachoris seems to waft from the page&#39; Daily TelegraphMeet Vish Puri, India&#39;s most private investigator.Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India&#39;s swindlers, cheats and murderers.In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri&#39;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&#39;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 &#39;Mummy-ji&#39; 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 &#39;that Johnny-come-lately&#39; 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&#39;s adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.

_________________________________________'Great fun' The Times'The smell of chat and kachoris seems to waft from the page' Daily TelegraphMeet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator.Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern

By Tarquin Hall

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