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Murder in Seven Acts

- Lalli Mysteries

About Murder in Seven Acts

Lalli, retired policewoman, intrepid detective, collects curiosities… that inevitably lead to murder. The curiosity of murder unfolds in seven acts. Since Kalpana Swaminathan's first whodunit was published over ten years ago, Lalli-sixty and silver-haired and tough as nails-has been one of the most memorable detectives in Indian fiction. Lalli returns in this brilliant page-turner, a collection of seven stories, to solve some of the strangest, most complex cases of her career. The opening act, in which a face keeps reappearing until a crime committed long ago is revealed, is followed by a murder that could be hypothetical-or a reality (Lalli turns to Schrodinger's Cat to find out). In the third act in this unfolding drama, Lalli and Sita are invited to a book-burning which turns out to be murder most foul. And Lalli turns her skills to the world of high fashion when Sita sits next to a serial killer on a bus-but was he killer or victim? The aptly named Sucide Point in Bombay's suburbs, leads Lalli to a suicide that turns out to be something far more sinister. And an innocuous desk ornament is the clue to a crime most artistically executed. Finally, for connoisseurs of fiction, the curtains come down with a threnody for lost love.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9789386582966
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 226
  • Published:
  • February 9, 2018
  • Dimensions:
  • 198x129x12 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 227 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: January 5, 2025
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025
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Description of Murder in Seven Acts

Lalli, retired policewoman, intrepid detective, collects curiosities… that inevitably lead to murder.
The curiosity of murder unfolds in seven acts.
Since Kalpana Swaminathan's first whodunit was published over ten years ago, Lalli-sixty and silver-haired and tough as nails-has been one of the most memorable detectives in Indian fiction. Lalli returns in this brilliant page-turner, a collection of seven stories, to solve some of the strangest, most complex cases of her career.
The opening act, in which a face keeps reappearing until a crime committed long ago is revealed, is followed by a murder that could be hypothetical-or a reality (Lalli turns to Schrodinger's Cat to find out). In the third act in this unfolding drama, Lalli and Sita are invited to a book-burning which turns out to be murder most foul. And Lalli turns her skills to the world of high fashion when Sita sits next to a serial killer on a bus-but was he killer or victim?
The aptly named Sucide Point in Bombay's suburbs, leads Lalli to a suicide that turns out to be something far more sinister. And an innocuous desk ornament is the clue to a crime most artistically executed. Finally, for connoisseurs of fiction, the curtains come down with a threnody for lost love.

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