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FROM: "Roane, Helen" <[removed]@dpcdsb.org>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 9:22 AM

Hi,

I'm looking for mystery books set in India.

Thanks,
Helen

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 9:28 AM

H.R.F. Keating's Inspector Ghote series.

Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
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1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
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>>> [removed]@dpcdsb.org 03/18/03 09:15AM >>>
Hi,

I'm looking for mystery books set in India.

Thanks,
Helen

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FROM: "Jonelis, Bonnie" <[removed]@crystallakelibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 9:39 AM

The Inspector Ghote series by HRF Keating is great. An old fashioned one would be Death in Kashmir by
M M Kaye.

Bonnie Jonelis
Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake Public Library
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FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@msln.net>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 9:56 AM

SEASON OF THE MONSOON by Paul Mann. At the core of this panoramic portrait of
modern Bombay lies a series of gruesome murders, setting Inspector George
Sansi -- half-Indian, half-English -- on a manhunt that takes him from the
unspeakable slums to the penthouses of the rich, from the haunts of the city's
booming movie colony to the streets of London. A brilliant, excoriating tale --
but not for the faint of heart. 360 pp.

THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE: MURDER AND MYSTERY IN THE FINAL DAYS OF THE RAJ
by Barbara Cleverly. In an impressive debut, British author Cleverly weaves an
engrossing tale of serial murder and the impending decline of the British
Empire into a well-written fair-play mystery set in 1920s India. 2002. 288 pp.

ROSE OF TIBET by Lionel Davidson. It is 1949. Charles Houston's London life is
unraveling. What's worse, his brother, who had gone to India to shoot a film
about Everest, has been missing for weeks. On impulse he decides to travel to
India to learn the truth about his brother, to right a wrong, and to enjoy a
taste of adventure. He ends up captive in a bizarre Shangri-la, from which he
must escape bearing a treasure beyond price. 328 pp. (1962)

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Quoting "Roane, Helen" <[removed]@dpcdsb.org>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for mystery books set in India.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Helen
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Mona Stevenson <[removed]@wtcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 2:22 PM

Molly mentioned the Paul Mann title "Monsoon Season". It has two sequels:
"Ganja Coast" and "Burning Ghats". An excellent, though graphic, trilogy.
One is set in Bollywood - the Indian counterpart to Hollywood, which
produces more films per year than any other film production area. It was
quite interesting.

Mona Stevenson
Assistant Director
Warren-Trumbull County (OH) Public Library

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 2:44 PM

At 10:15 AM 3/18/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for mystery books set in India.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Helen

See if any library near you (I don't know where you're located) has
Allen J. Hubin's CRIME FICTION II or the later (cdrom only) edition
CRIME FICTION III. We don't have CFIII, but the "settings index"
on page 1251 of CFII lists about 150 mysteries set in India (and
published in English prior to 1991); there are also separate listings
on other pages in the setting index for those set specifically in
Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi, and "Indian Ocean" (8 titles).

Far too many to type in here, but if no one near you has the set,
I could send you photocopy if I had a mailing address.

Hubin (who is local) uses my library regularly; he's working on a
new and final edition which will extend coverage up through 2000,
to be published soon both on cdrom and in hardcopy. After that,
it's someone else's problem to update further...

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Alisa Alering <[removed]@indiana.edu>
REC'D: 3/18/03, 8:23 PM

How about mysteries set in India, that were written by an Indian
author? The following books all feature the Bengali detective Feluda,
his teenaged assistant Topshe, and Jatayu, a bumbling writer of crime
fiction.

The House of Death & Other Feluda Stories
Feluda's Last Case & Other Stories
The Adventures of Feluda
Mystery of the Elephant God; More Adventures of Feluda
Mystery of the Pink Pearl; The Final Feluda Stories

All by Satyajit Ray.

Alisa Alering
MLS student, Indiana University

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/19/03, 7:08 AM

First and foremost, H. R. F. Keating's "Inspector Ghote" series.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/19/03, 7:08 AM

>From: Molly Williams <[removed]@msln.net>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Mysteries set in India
>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:54:25 -0500
>
>
>ROSE OF TIBET by Lionel Davidson...

This being more of a spy thriller than a mystery, you might also consider a
classic: Kipling's "Kim," which, of course, is about "The Great Game" of
espionage between England and Russia.

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