Dead Hand
Subtitle: A Crime in Calcutta
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780241144633
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general; India, fiction
Description: When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die - and will Delfont, whom Mrs Unger claims to admire, find out what really happened?