A dead hand :
Theroux, Paul,
A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta / Paul Theroux. - 264 pages ; 24 cm.
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?
9780241144749 (pbk.)
Travel writers--Fiction.
Americans--India--Fiction.
Calcutta (India)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
813.54 THE / 002574
A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta / Paul Theroux. - 264 pages ; 24 cm.
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?
9780241144749 (pbk.)
Travel writers--Fiction.
Americans--India--Fiction.
Calcutta (India)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
813.54 THE / 002574