A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta
Title:
A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta
Author:
Theroux, Paul.
ISBN:
9780141044163
Publication Information:
London [etc.] : Penguin Books, 2010
Physical Description:
264 p. ; 20 cm
Abstract:
Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why?
Subject:
| Travel writers -- Fiction |
| Americans -- India -- Fiction |
| Calcutta (India) -- Fiction |
| Mystery fiction |
Summary:
Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why?