Bad Day at the Vulture Club: the warm and witty cosy crime series from the acclaimed author of the Malabar House series

Name: Bad Day at the Vulture Club: the warm and witty cosy crime series from the acclaimed author of the Malabar House series
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Vaseem Khan

Aug 2019 · Hachette UK

2 reviews

Ebook

384

Pages

Eligible

Switch to the audiobook

About this ebook

In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency cosy crime novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens.

The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared.

When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, his body dumped inside a Tower of Silence - where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures - the police dismiss it as a random killing. But his daughter is unconvinced. And Chopra, uneasy at entering this world of power and privilege, is soon plagued by doubts about the case.

But murder is murder. And in Mumbai, wealth and corruption go in hand in hand, inextricably linking the lives of both high and low...

'Endearing and gripping' Sunday Times
'Utterly charming' The Guardian
'Colour and atmosphere flows from every page' Daily Express

*Discover the Malabar House series, featuring India's first female detective Persis Wadia, available now*

In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency cosy crime novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens. The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared. ...

Discover more

Ratings and reviews

2 reviews

About the author

Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay.His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger.Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.

Rate this ebook

Tell us what you think.

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets

Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.

Laptops and computers

You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.

eReaders and other devices

To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.

Flag as inappropriate