In this Indian-set mystery, Inspector Chopra inherits an elephant and an unsolved murder on his last day at work. A joyful, charming read for fans of Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce.
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Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay.
His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.
Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For Chopra has one last case to solve...
But as his murder investigation leads him across Mumbai - from its richest mansions to its murky underworld - he quickly discovers that a baby elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs.
So begins the start of a quite unexpected partnership, and an utterly delightful new series.
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For Chopra has one last case to solve...
But as his murder investigation leads him across Mumbai - from its richest mansions to its murky underworld - he quickly discovers that a baby elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs.
So begins the start of a quite unexpected partnership, and an utterly delightful new series.
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Condizione: Como nuevo. : En esta encantadora y alegre novela de misterio, ambientada en Bombay, el inspector Ashwin Chopra se enfrenta a dos misterios inesperados el día de su jubilación: la herencia de un elefante bebé y un caso sin resolver sobre la muerte de un joven. A medida que Chopra investiga, descubre que ambos misterios están más entrelazados de lo que pensaba, llevándolo a un viaje a través de la ciudad, desde sus mansiones más ricas hasta su turbio inframundo. Con la ayuda de su nuevo compañero elefante, Chopra se adentra en una inesperada asociación para resolver el caso y desentrañar los secretos que acechan en la ciudad. EAN: 9781473612280 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra Autor: Vaseem Khan Editorial: Hodder And Stoughton Idioma: en Páginas: 314 Formato: tapa blanda. Codice articolo Happ-2024-09-03-a44909ed
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Softcover. Condizione: As New. Leichte Abnutzungen. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs. Codice articolo 95529399-b15c-49ee-96f4-8b648421b577
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