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Death of a Lesser God Vaseem Khan
Death of a Lesser God
Vaseem Khan
In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.
Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India?
Bombay, 1950
John Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Farid Mazumdar, is two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, at loggerheads with the Indian government since Independence, forces a new investigation into the killing.
As Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police investigates, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, she uncovers a possible link to a second case, the brutal murder of an African-American G. I.
during the Calcutta Killings of 1946.
How are the cases connected? If Whitby didn't murder Mazumdar, then who did? And why?
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 10, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781399707619 |
| Publishers | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Dimensions | 233 × 152 × 30 mm · 446 g |
| Language | English |
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