The Case of the Missing Servant

✍ Scribed by Hall, Tarquin

• Book ID: 109034607
• Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Series: Vish Puri 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Meet Vish Puri, India�s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India�s swindlers, cheats, and murderers.
� � � In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers 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.
� � � But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri�s resources to investigate. How will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? Who is taking potshots at him and his prize chili plants? And why is his widowed �Mummy-ji� attempting to play sleuth when everyone knows mummies are not detectives?
� � � 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.
� � � The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur and the remote mines of Jharkhand. From Puri�s well-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live, his adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.