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Malabar house
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift. And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James...
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Malabar house volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Bombay, 1950. Inspector Persis Wadia unravels a series of cryptic verse clues in search of a 600-year-old copy of Dante's Inferno, which has gone missing along with its caretaker.
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The lost man of Bombay , Malabar house volume 3
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Malabar house volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Bombay, 1950. James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie...