ISBN: 9789353768966 Pages: 295 Size: 129 x 198 mm Language: English Book Binding: Paperback Weight: 190 gm.
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About The Book
Mussoorie, 1909. The ghastly murder of Margaret Maynard Liddell in a hotel room locked from the inside shocks the public. Its ripples reach Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling, who can only guess the identity of the killer but never prove it. Around sixty years later, a wealthy heiress is found similarly murdered in the queen of the hills.The needle of suspicion points to an old housekeeper, an estranged brother, an aloof husband, and a fraud godman and his acolyte, for each of them has a motive to kill her. Avijit Sikdar, an Oxford-returned detective and a fan of Doyle and Kipling’s writings, gets a whiff of the case and begins his hunt for the elusive killer while trying to piece together the connection between the two crimes. Join Sikdar and Kipling on this thrilling and page-turning adventure across two timelines as they untangle the mystery of the murder in a locked room.
About Divyaroop Bhatnagar
Divyaroop (Debu) Bhatnagar was born and brought up in Kanpur.As a child, he would go to Mussoorie with his family during his summer vacations, and the love for the place and the mountains has stayed with him forever. Debu studied at IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta and had a long career with consumer products companies in India and abroad as a CEO and an MD. Along with a few close friends and colleagues, he later set up a consulting company. Debu loves reading, travelling, golfing, and playing bridge. He has been writing since 2018 when his first book, Journey to the Hills and Other Stories, was published. He has two grown-up daughters and three lovely granddaughters and lives in Gurgaon with his wife, Devi.