✍ Scribed by H R F Keating
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
That intrepid little sleuth of the Bombay CID, Inspector Ghote, is back on his latest case. . . .
In Bollywood, the film capital of India, the grisly murder of Dhartiraj, India’s most famous screen villain, has plunged the Hindi tinsel town into chaos and intrigue.
But with the help of an ever resourceful gossip columnist—Bollywood’s answer to Rona Barrett—Ghote has soon assembled a list of some very likely suspects: a fading star who stood to inherit many of Dhartiraj’s roles; India’s number-one superstar, who was Dhartiraj’s rival at the box office (and in bed); and last but hardly least, the actor’s trusted stand-in. Ghote could easily make a case for each of them wanting the great Dhartiraj off the boards and into permanent retirement.
And in his enthusiasm to see justice served, Ghote gets caught up in his own theatrics—becoming so preoccupied with giving an Academy Awardwinning performance as a super sleuth that the curtain is almost brought down on his own life.
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