From his w ell-heeled Gymkhana Club to the slums w here the servant classes live, Puri's adventures reveal modern India in all its seething complexity. The search for Mary takes him to the desert oasis of Jaipur and the remote mines of Jharkhand. How w ill he trace the fate of the girl, know n only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion? W ho is taking pot shots at him and his prize chilli plants? And w hy is his w idow ed 'Mummy-ji' attempting to play sleuth w hen everyone know s Mummies are not detectives? W ith his team of undercover operatives - Tubelight, Flush and Facecream - Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques w ith principles of detection established in India more than tw o thousand years ago - long before 'that Johnny-come-lately' Sherlock Holmes donned his Deerstalker. Great fun The TimesThe smell of chat and kachoris seems to waft from the page Daily TelegraphMeet Vish Puri, Indias most private investigator. But w hen an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri's resources to investigate.
In hot and dusty Delhi, w here call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main w ork comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined sw athe through modern India's sw indlers, cheats and murderers. Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator.
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