AuthorVaseem Khan
NarratorMaya Saroya
SeriesThe Malabar House Series, Book 5
Duration10h 20m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain's MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. As she pursues both investigations - with and without official sanction - she soon finds herself headed to the country's capital, New Delhi, a city where ancient and modern India openly clash. Meanwhile, Persis's colleague, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life as all around him the country tears itself apart in the prelude to war...
Baby Ganesh Detective Agency Series Book 3: The Strange Disappearance of A Bollywood Star
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Madhav Sharma
SeriesBABY GANESH DETECTIVE AGENCY, Book 3
Duration 11h 21m
Mumbai thrives on extravagant spectacles and larger-than-life characters. But even in the city of dreams, there is no guarantee of a happy ending. Rising star and incorrigible playboy Vikram Verma has disappeared, leaving his latest film in jeopardy. Hired by Verma's formidable mother to find him, Inspector Chopra and his sidekick, baby elephant Ga...
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Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Dev Joshi, Stephanie Cannon, John Chancer
Duration 12h 46m
THE WORLD KNOWS HER AS THE GIRL IN CELL A. Convicted of murder at seventeen, infamous killer and true crime celebrity Orianna Negi has always maintained her innocence. BUT IF SHE DIDN'T KILL GIDEON WYCLERC... Orianna has a blind spot over that fateful day: she can't remember what happened. Forensic psychologist Annie Ledet is tasked with unlocking...
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Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Maya Saroya
SeriesThe Malabar House Series, Book 3
Duration 10h 29m
Bombay, 1950 When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun, he is christened the Ice Man by the national media. Who is he? How long has he been there? Why was he killed? As Inspector Persis Wadia and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch investigate the case in Bombay, they uncover a trail left b...
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The Malabar House Series Book 2: The Dying Day
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Maya Saroya
SeriesThe Malabar House Series, Book 2
Duration 10h 40m
Bombay, 1950 For more than a century, one of the world's great treasures, a 600-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk. Uncovering a seri...
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Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Maya Saroya
SeriesThe Malabar House Series, Book 4
Duration 11h 5m
Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India? Bombay, 1950 James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, forces a new investi...
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The Malabar House Series Book 1: Midnight at Malabar House
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Maya Saroya
SeriesThe Malabar House Series, Book 1
Duration 10h 42m
Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India's first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the m...
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Baby Ganesh Detective Agency Series Book 2: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel In the Crown
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Sartaj Garewal
SeriesBABY GANESH DETECTIVE AGENCY, Book 2
Duration 8h 42m
For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king. Now part of the British Crown Jewels, the priceless gem is a prize that many have killed to possess. So when the Crown Jewels go on display in Mumbai, security is everyone's principal concern. And yet, on the very day Inspector Chopra visits the exhibition, the diam...
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Baby Ganesh Detective Agency Series Book 4: Murder At the Grand Raj Palace
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Madhav Sharma
SeriesBABY GANESH DETECTIVE AGENCY, Book 4
Duration 11h 2m
In the enchanting new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick go undercover to investigate a murder at Mumbai's grandest hotel. For a century the iconic Grand Raj Palace Hotel has welcomed the world's elite. From film stars to foreign dignitaries, anyone who is anyone stays at the Grand Raj. The last thing the venerable...
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Baby Ganesh Detective Agency Series Book 1: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Sartaj Garewal
SeriesBABY GANESH DETECTIVE AGENCY, Book 1
Duration 7h 16m
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...
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Baby Ganesh Detective Agency Series Book 5: Bad Day at the Vulture Club
Author: Vaseem Khan
Author Vaseem Khan
Narrator Madhav Sharma
SeriesBABY GANESH DETECTIVE AGENCY, Book 5
Duration 11h 42m
In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest. The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared. When prominent indu...
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Anonymous 17 Aug 2025
entertaining historical tale
Brilliant twists to a historical mystery story