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Simon & Schuster, June 2011
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1439172382
ISBN-13: 9781439172384
Description
Early one morning, on the lawn of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, the Hindu goddess Kali appears and plunges a sword into the chest of a prominent Indian scientist, who dies in a fit of giggles. Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator, master of disguise and lover of all things fried and spicy, doesn’t believe the murder is a supernatural occurrence and sets out to prove who really killed Dr. Suresh Jha. To get at the truth, he and his team of undercover operatives—Facecream, Tubelight, and Flush—travel from the slum where India’s hereditary magicians must be persuaded to reveal their secrets to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges. Stopping only to indulge his ample Punjabi appetite, Puri uncovers a network of spirituality, science, and sin unique in the annals of crime and soon finds that solving the case will require all of his earthly faculties.
“Delightful . . . Hall splendidly evokes the color and bustle of Delhi streets and the tang of contemporary India.”
-- Seattle Times, “Best Crime Novels of 2010”
“Hall writes amusing mysteries…[his] affectionate humor is embedded with barbs.”
-- Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“Modern India, in all its colorful squalor, provides a vivid backdrop for this well-crafted whodunit.”
-- Jean Westmoore, Buffalo News
“Delightful . . . a terrific book with wonderful puzzle plot and a great setting.”
-- The Globe and Mail
“Hall takes the reader into a very Indian, very Delhi web of spirituality, sin, slums, and power broking, but all treated with a veneer of wit and intelligent absurdity.”
-- India Today
“Splendid . . . Entertaining . . . Vish Puri is large, constantly hungry, a perpetual victim of Delhi’s traffic congestion, and a wonderfully engaging P.I. . . . A joy to read.”
-- The Times (London)
"Hall has concocted a delicious book….Move over, Slumdog Millionaire!"
-- Anne Grant, Providence Journal-Bulletin (Rhode Island)
TheStar.com.my, June 11, 2011
...Youll have loads of fun with these novels. The Case of the Missing Servant Author: Tarquin Hall Publisher: Arrow Books, 312 pages The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing Author: Tarquin Hall Publisher: Hutchinson, 334 pages READING about the ...
Seattle Times, January 1, 2011
..."morality tales for the post-Soviet era." Padura is an investigative journalist, essayist, novelist and baseball nut. India Tarquin Hall: Hall, a British author, has created Vish Puri, a Punjabi "most private investigator" who lives and ...
Houston Chronicle, June 20, 2010
... • Tarquin Hall will sign and discuss The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing, 6:30 p.m. Monday (June 21) at Murder By The Book, 2342 Bissonnet. Information: 713-524-8597. • ...
Boston Globe, June 13, 2010
...As 101 Things I Learned in Film School suggests, After the climax, get out fast. Coming out The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall (Simon & Schuster) Last Words of the Executed by Robert K. Elder (University of Chicago) ...
New York Times, June 5, 2010
...out without benefit of cloth in a public stairway. Lets just hope the job doesnt wear her out. Tarquin Hall writes amusing mysteries set in Delhi and featuring Vish Puri, the conscientious proprietor of Most Private Investigators Ltd., a ...
Examiner.com, May 31, 2010
...#8) June 29, 2010 Bone Appetit by Carolyn Haines (Sarah Booth Delaney series #100 June 22, 2010 The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall (Vish Puri series #2) June 15, 2010 The Taking of Libbie, SD by David Housewright ...
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