A dead hand a crime in Calcutta

When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel roo...

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Main Author: Theroux, Paul
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
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