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Bad Day at the Vulture Club
Baby Ganesh Agency Book 5
Series: Baby Ganesh series
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In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest.
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In the gripping new BABY GANESH AGENCY novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest.
The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared.
When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, his body dumped inside a Tower of Silence—where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures—the police dismiss it as a random killing. But his daughter is unconvinced.
Chopra, uneasy at entering this world of power and privilege, is soon plagued by doubts about the case.
But murder is murder. And in Mumbai, wealth and corruption go hand in hand, inextricably linking the lives of both high and low...
Bad Day at the Vulture Club takes the reader into this fascinating world, where tradition and modernity collide, and where the powerful are often shielded from justice.
Series: Baby Ganesh series
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In the gripping new BABY GANESH AGENCY novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest. The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared. When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground,...Paperback$9300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Bad Day at the Vulture Club by Vaseem Khan is highly praised for being the best in the series so far, offering a brilliant and engaging addition to the crime thriller category. The book is celebrated for its charm, vibrant atmosphere, and ability to intertwine humour with serious themes like corruption and crime. Critics commend its gripping narrative and educational insights into the challenges faced in India's urban landscape.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781473685383
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 March 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Mulholland Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 34.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 273g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay.
His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.Also by Vaseem Khan
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