The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken by Tarquin Hall - ISBN: 9780099561873
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Deadly butter chicken, cricket, and clues across India and Pakistan.

The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2013

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Summary

The wonderful third outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri (‘the Indian Hercule Poirot’ Financial Times)

Vish Puri is as fond of butter chicken as the next Punjabi. And when there’s plenty on offer at the Delhi Durbar hotel where he’s attending an India Premier League cricket match dinner, he’s the first to tuck in. Irfan Khan, father of Pakistani star cricketer Kamran Khan, can’t resist either. But the creamy dish proves his undoing. After a few mouthfuls, he collapses on the floor, de…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099561873
ISBN-10:0099561875
Author:Tarquin Hall
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:15 July 2013
Weight:256g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 23mm
Series:Arrow Books
What They're Saying

Critics Review

This book is written with a wry sense of humour and a light touch … The author perfectly captures the cadences of Anglo-Indian English and the glossary of Indian terms at the back of the book is invaluable. This is the third in the Vish Puri series of books and I eagerly await the fourth. * Crime Review *
The Punjabi Poirot is dogged by calamities in this comic tale * Woman *
Outstanding third mystery … Well drawn, colorful characters bolster a whodunit sure to appeal to those who enjoy a dash of humor with their crime. * Publishers Weekly *
This lovely series is a great example of crime fiction functioning as a foreign holiday for the armchair traveler. Hall’s readers become happily immersed in the glorious rhythms and neologism of ‘Dilli’ language, while the cuisine is so well described you can almost smell it. * Morning Star *
I love Hall’s blend of inventive plot and Ealing-Comedy eccentricity. * Saga magazine *

About The Author

Tarquin Hall

Tarquin Hall is a writer and journalist who has lived and worked in much of South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the US. Tarquin first went to India in the mid 1990s where he met his wife, journalist Anu Anand. They now live in Delhi with their two children. He is the author of several non-fiction works and two other Vish Puri stories, The Case of the Missing Servant and The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing.

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