Bond, Ruskin

A Murder in Mussoorie and Other Tales /Ruskin Bond - 1st ed. - New Delhi: Rupa Publications India, 2019. - 118 p.: 19cm.

September 1911. The sleepy little hill-town of Mussoorie—British in its garb and Indian in its soul—is jolted out of its reverie by a mysterious murder. A woman is found dead in her bed, her body laid out perfectly, and the door locked from inside. Sundry suspects and sensational speculations about black magic and crystal-gazing abound, but no one has been able to identify the murderer. Outgrowing the small town, the story travels to all the way to faraway London, and catches the fancy of the master of mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle…

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