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A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta / Paul Theroux.

Theroux, Paul. (Author).

Summary:

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 room, how and why did he die?

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  • ISBN: 9780547260242
  • ISBN: 0547260245
  • ISBN: 9780547394497 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0547394497 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 279 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

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Subject:
Travel writers > Fiction.
Americans > India > Fiction.
Calcutta (India) > Fiction.
Crime > Fiction.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.

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