- Ex-police officers, Private investigators, Fiction, Drowning
"The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Vaseem Khan
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Ullstein Taschenbuch, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780316386821
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Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the James Bond franchise. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay, won the CWA Historical Dagger. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. Vaseem is the current Chair of the UK Crime Writers Association.
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