TY - BOOK AU - Theroux,Paul TI - A dead hand: a crime in Calcutta SN - 9780241144749 (pbk.) U1 - 813.54 THE 23 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Hamish Hamilton KW - Travel writers KW - Fiction KW - Americans KW - India KW - Calcutta (India) KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd N2 - 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? ER -