The Case of the Missing Servant: from the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator

Hall, Tarquin

ISBN 10: 1416583688 / ISBN 13: 9781416583684

Published by Simon & Schuster, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Case of the Missing Servant: from the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416583688
• ISBN 13: 9781416583684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A first installment in a new series by the author of To the Elephant Graveyard introduces mustachioed Vish Puri, a respectable family man who styles himself as India's forefront private investigator and who runs background checks for prospective brides and grooms until more sensational cases take him into India's increasingly divergent communities.

About the Author

Tarquin Hall is a British author and journalist who has lived and worked throughout South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.  He is the author of The Case of the Missing Servant, dozens of articles, and three works of non-fiction, including the highly acclaimed Salaam Brick Lane, an account of a year spent above a Bangladeshi sweat shop in London’s notorious East End. He is married to Indian-born journalist, Anu Anand.  They divide their time between London and Delhi.