num_pages: 418
description: Neelambari Adigal and her young associate Kayal together run Biblio a one-of-a-kind store of rare books in Chennai specializing in modern Indian first editions. The lives of these passionate bookwomen revolve around curious browsers eccentric book collectors private-press printers and the occasional thrill of unexpected discoveries of the antiquarian kind.On a book-collecting trip to Ooty Kayal stumbles upon an incendiary manuscript long thought to be a myth purportedly authored by explorer and translator Sir Richard Francis Burton. Almost simultaneously a cache of priceless editions that looks like it could be from the 300-year-old library of one of the greatest book collectors the world has ever known turns up at the bookshop. When it falls upon the two women to authenticate their finds Neela and Kayal discover quite suddenly that their lives are more full of bibliographic intrigue than they could ever have imagined.Indias first-ever bibliomystery The Book Hunters of Katpadi is the book every lover of the written word has been waiting for. In the tradition of the greatest in the genre it holds within its pages adventure action suspense  and the sheer thrill of close encounters with prized print-on-paper.
language: English
title: The Book Hunters of Katpadi: A Bibliomystery
publisher: Hachette India