Six Suspects - Brossura

Swarup, Vikas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385608160 ISBN 13: 9780385608169

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2008

Riassunto

Vicky Rai, the playboy son of a prominent Indian Cabinet minister has been shot dead by persons unknown at his farmhouse (No. 6) outside Delhi. Six people were partying at his house immediately preceding his death - each one equally liable to have pulled the trigger. In this elaborate mystery reminiscent of Agatha Christie, we the readers are the detectives, as six suspects' lives unravel before our eyes - a bureaucrat, a cannibal, an idiot, an actress, a politician, and a nobody. Each character has their own chapter, three times over, the first being under Suspects; the second under Motives; the third - when all is revealed - under Evidence. Vikas Swarup's finely schematic and audacious plotting will delight the many fans of his acclaimed "Q&A."

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A Indian Agatha Christie...a page turning murder mystery from the master storyteller of Q&A.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

There's a caste system even in murder.

Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink.

Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal.

The police cordon off the venue and search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession and are taken in for questioning.

Who are these six suspects? And what were they doing in the farmhouse that night?

In this elaborate mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi overnight; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a stone-age tribesman on a quest to recover a sacred stone; a Bollywood sex-symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile-phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger.

Inspired by actual events, Vikas Swarup's second offering is both a riveting page-turner and an insightful peek into the heart and soul of contemporary India. His kaleidoscopic imagination will delight the many fans of his acclaimed debut Q & A. Audaciously and astutely plotted, Six Suspects is the work of a master storyteller.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385608160
• ISBN 13: 9780385608169
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480