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The Case Of The Missing Servant

Meet Vish Puri, India`s most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India`s swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres 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 pot shots at him and his prize chilli 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 his well-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums where the servant classes live, Puri`s adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity.

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