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The Satapur Moonstone

Author : Sujata Massey

Publisher : Allen & Unwin

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 48,65 MB

Release : 2020-05-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1760874205

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Lawyer-sleuth Perveen Mistry returns in another fascinating Bombay mystery. 'Vivid and clever...love her to bits.' Kerry Greenwood, bestselling author of the Miss Phryne Fisher series The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse has fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja and his teenage son are both dead. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal ladies are in dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer's council is required - but the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one woman can help them: Perveen Mistry. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house, but when she arrives she finds that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realises she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the deadly curse on the palace? '... even better than the series' impressive debut . . . The winning, self-sufficient Perveen should be able to sustain a long series.' - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 'Simply put, The Satapur Moonstone is a flawless gem. Historical mysteries don't get any better than this.' - New York Journal of Books 'Once again Massey does a superb job of combining a fascinating snapshot into 1920s British-ruled India with a top-notch mystery. She has created a strong, appealing heroine who is forging her own path in a rapidly changing world.' - Library Journal, Starred Review



Murder in Old Bombay

Author : Nev March

Publisher : Minotaur Books

Page : 407 pages

File Size : 26,11 MB

Release : 2020-11-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250753775

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Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel! In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers. The case that catches Captain Jim's attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university’s clock tower in broad daylight. Moved by Adi, the widower of one of the victims — his certainty that his wife and sister did not commit suicide — Captain Jim approaches the Parsee family and is hired to investigate what happened that terrible afternoon. But in a land of divided loyalties, asking questions is dangerous. Captain Jim's investigation disturbs the shadows that seem to follow the Framji family and triggers an ominous chain of events. And when lively Lady Diana Framji joins the hunt for her sisters’ attackers, Captain Jim’s heart isn’t safe, either. Based on a true story, and set against the vibrant backdrop of colonial India, Nev March's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning lyrical debut, Murder in Old Bombay, brings this tumultuous historical age to life.



A Murder at Malabar Hill

Author : Sujata Massey

Publisher :

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 33,14 MB

Release : 2021-06

Category :

ISBN : 9781761065279

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A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.



Incarnations

Author : Sunil Khilnani

Publisher : Random House India

Page : 551 pages

File Size : 34,66 MB

Release : 2017-01-12

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 9385990950

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For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.



Roanoke, the Lost Colony

Author : Jane Yolen

Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 21,29 MB

Release : 2003-07-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780689823213

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In this spine-tingling book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, journey to colonial America and discover the enduring mystery of the missing Roanoke Colony. In 1587 John White was chosen by Sir Walter Raleigh to lead a new colony at Roanoke off the Atlantic coast. After bringing many men, women, and children to the new land, White went back to England to gather supplies for the long winter. But when he finally returned to the fort almost three years later, he found that all of the colonists had vanished. The only signs of life left were the letters CRO carved into a tree and the word CROATOAN carved into one of the fort’s posts. Did the Spanish army capture the colonists? Did the colonists get in a battle with the native people—or join them? Did they try to follow John White to England and get lost at sea? Become a detective, study the clues, and see if you can help solve this chilling mystery from history!



In Search of Occult India: History, Mystery and Secrets

Author : Adeline Klara Palmerstone

Publisher : Country Publications

Page : 17 pages

File Size : 31,1 MB

Release : 2022-08-28

Category : Religion

ISBN : 3754678248

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Recently a woman was pressurized to bathe naked in public in a waterfalls in India. The family believes that it will bring child in her womb! Can it be? India was known as a country of magic, witchcraft, snake, naked sages and tiger in the British period. Today, however, India has progressed a lot in the field of technology and science. But there is still a great ongoing practice of occultism deep inside of India. Where are those places? Can it be really done? Is it really true? The book tries to throw some light on this black magic practice still prevalent in India and its societal implications.



The Wolf Girls

Author : Jane Yolen

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 47,95 MB

Release : 2021-05-25

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1665912952

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In this eerie book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, travel to an Indian orphanage where two new arrivals are so wild that some claim they were raised by wolves. In 1920 a missionary brought two young girls to an orphanage in India. The girls didn’t know how to talk, walk, or eat from a plate. Some people thought the girls had been abandoned by their parents. Some people said the girls were brought up by wolves in the wild. Still others thought that the missionary who ran the orphanage made up the story about the girls. No one knows for sure. Become a detective, study the clues, and see if you can help solve this chilling mystery from history!



India Black

Author : Carol K. Carr

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 215 pages

File Size : 49,48 MB

Release : 2011-01-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101478292

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Read India Black's blog and other content on the Penguin Community. When Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies from a heart attack while visiting her brothel, Madam India Black is unexpectedly thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried. Blackmailed into recovering the missing documents by the British spy known as French, India finds herself dodging Russian agents-and the attraction she starts to feel for the handsome conspirator.



A Rising Man

Author : Abir Mukherjee

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 34,76 MB

Release : 2017-05-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681774771

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In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official—in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else . . . Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. He is immediately overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, but with barely a moment to acclimatize or to deal with the ghosts that still haunt him, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that threatens to destabilize a city already teetering on the brink of political insurgency. The body of a senior official has been found in a filthy sewer, and a note left in his mouth warns the British to quit India, or else. Under tremendous pressure to solve the case before it erupts into increased violence on the streets, Wyndham and his two new colleagues—arrogant Inspector Digby and Sergeant Banerjee, one of the few Indians to be recruited into the new CID—embark on an investigation that will take them from the opulent mansions of wealthy British traders to the seedy opium dens of the city. Masterfully evincing the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Calcutta, A Rising Man is the start of an enticing new historical crime series.



A Brief History of India

Author : Judith E. Walsh

Publisher : Infobase Publishing

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 47,89 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Asia

ISBN : 1438108257

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With nearly 1 billion citizens, India is the second most populous nation in the world. Its conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir and tensions between the many ethnic groups that populate India today find frequent mention in Weste.