num_pages: 360
description: Indias only female lawyer Perveen Mistry is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombays streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay.November 1921. Edward VIII Prince of Wales and future ruler of India is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isnt surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But shes horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the princes grand procession is passing by her college.Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Perveen who strongly identified with Frenyanother young Parsi woman fighting hard against the confines of societys rules and expectationsfeels terribly guilty for failing to help her. Perveen steps forward to assist Frenys family in the fraught dealings of the coroners inquest and when Frenys death is ruled a murder Perveen knows she cant rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?
language: English
title: The Bombay Prince
publisher: Soho Crime