Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Flint, Shamini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410431568 ISBN 13: 9781410431561

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2010

Synopsis

Dispatched to Kuala Lumpur to solve a perplexing case involving a famous model on death row who swears she is innocent, bumbling Inspector Singh confronts challenging obstacles including formidable circumstantial evidence and police resistance. (mystery & detective).

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About the Author

SHAMINI FLINT is a Cambridge graduate and former lawyer. In addition to the Inspector Singh series, she is the author of several highly regarded children’s books.

From Booklist

Flint’s adult debut is the first investigation by Inspector Singh of Singapore, and it’s a charming and solid mystery with an enticing international atmosphere. Notoriously difficult Inspector Singh is sent to Malaysia when a Singaporean citizen, former model Chelsea Leiw, is accused of her husband’s murder. Since his superiors are glad to be rid of him, Singh is pretty much on his own in Malaysia, a country he considers to be dirty, foreign, and altogether too hot—it’s impossible for him to keep his trademark white sneakers spotless, something that is never a problem in his ultraclean and rule-bound home country. Singh is so determined to find the real killer (and thereby free Chelsea, Singh’s teenage crush) that after he’s officially off the investigation, he stays on to pursue his own inquiries. Flint effectively builds the plot around contemporary political issues—the logging industry and the efforts of environmentalists to regulate it—but the real appeal of her novel is Singh himself, whose timeless, idiosyncratic personality will draw all types of mystery readers. Try suggesting this to fans of H. R. F. Keating’s Inspector Ghote novels. --Jessica Moyer

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1410431568
• ISBN 13: 9781410431561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400