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?

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Travel writers--Fiction.
Americans--India--Fiction.


Calcutta (India)--Fiction.


Mystery fiction.

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