The Widows of Malabar Hill

✍ Scribed by Massey, Sujata

• Book ID: 109455507
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay!

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Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen is going through the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on if they forfeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X--meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. The Farid widows live in full...