The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur and the remote mines of Jharkhand. With his team of undercover operatives - Tubelight, Flush and Facecream - Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago - long before 'that Johnny-come-lately' Sherlock Holmes donned his Deerstalker.
How will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking pot shots at him and his prize chilli plants? And why is his widowed 'Mummy-ji' attempting to play sleuth when everyone knows Mummies are not detectives? In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests.īut when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri's resources to investigate. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers.
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. 'The smell of chat and kachoris seems to waft from the page' Daily Telegraph Acclaimed writer Tarquin Hall makes his fiction debut with an Indian detective story
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