The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra: The warm and witty cosy crime series from the acclaimed author of the Malabar House novels

Name: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra: The warm and witty cosy crime series from the acclaimed author of the Malabar House novels
Rating: 4.300000190734863 (10 reviews)

Vaseem Khan

Aug 2015 · Hachette UK

10 reviews

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Mumbai, mystery and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful cosy crime for fans of Janice Hallett, Alexander McCall Smith and Richard Osman.

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For Chopra has one last case to solve...

But as his murder investigation leads him across Mumbai - from its richest mansions to its murky underworld - he quickly discovers that a baby elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs.

So begins quite an unexpected - and joyful - crime-solving partnership ...

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

*** Selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020 ***

Mumbai, mystery and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful cosy crime for fans of Janice Hallett, Alexander McCall Smith and Richard Osman. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant: an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient. For ...

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Laraib Zakir

July 31, 2015

This is my uncles second book and i am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo proud everyone read it (he's really good at cricket )

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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.

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