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Death of a Lesser God

AuthorVaseem Khan

NarratorMaya Saroya

SeriesThe Malabar House Series, Book 4

Duration11h 5m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Historical Novels

PublisherHodder & Stoughton

VersionUnabridged

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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 investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, she uncovers a possible link to a second case, the brutal murder of an African-American G.I. during the Calcutta Killings of 1946. How are the cases connected? If Whitby didn't murder Mazumdar, then who did? And why?

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