Death in Colaba Bay : a colonial Bombay mystery
/ Ambika Subramanian
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi: Rupa, 2021.
- 135p. : 20cm.
Death in Colaba Bay is a thrilling tale of Victorian Bombay, a city where dreams are realized, and nightmares are lived. BOMBAY 1898. In the bustling and modern port city of Bombay?home to great wealth and great deprivation?crime is ever present. Three young girls go missing from a prominent 'native school in the city. Their families are frantic with worry. Tara Bai, a young widow and heiress, with strong social connections, is an alumnus of the school. Intrigued and alarmed by the case, at the behest of the school founder and principal, she agrees to help the grieving parents.