Hall, Tarquin. The Case of the Missing Servant. Read by Sam Dastor. North Kingston, RI: BBC Audiobooks America, 2009.
Hall, Tarquin. The Case of the Missing Servant. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Reason read: Rajir Ratna Ganghi, the youngest Indian Prime Minister was born in August.
Vish Puri is India’s Most Private Investigator. Confidentiality is his game. His bread and butter cases consist mostly of scoping out potential partners in a culture where prearranged marriages are the norm. Fathers consider the services Puri and his team provides a deeper background check of eligible mates for their daughters. Then one day a servant girl goes missing. Rumor has it, her own employer (a wealthy lawyer) murdered her. All the evidence points to him so this should be an easy case…
Interesting tidbit – Puri doesn’t like being compared to Sherlock Holmes. “Sherlock is a fictional character” he sniffs.
As an aside, I loved the nicknames of Puri’s Most Private investigation team. Tubelight and Facecream were my favorites.
Book trivia: The Case of the Missing Servant is the first in a series featuring Vish Puri. But, as a reader you feel as though you were dropped in the middle of Vish’s life as he remembers other, earlier cases.
Author fact: The Case of the Missing Servant is Hall’s first book.
Nancy said: nothing specific about The Case of the Missing Servant.
BookLust Twist: from Book Lust To Go in the chapter called “Sojourns in South Asia: India” (p 212).
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