Midnight at Malabar House
Khan, Vaseem, 1973-2021
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Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift. And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James Herriot, the country's most sensational case falls into her lap. As 1950 dawns and India prepares to become the world's largest republic, Persis, accompanied by Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, finds herself investigating a case that is becoming more political by the second.
Main title:
Midnight at Malabar House / Vaseem Khan.
Author:
Khan, Vaseem, 1973-, author
Imprint:
London : Hodder, 2021.
Collation:
325 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2020.
ISBN:
9781473685505 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
3062743