My spouse thought I should read this book. It was a dead-tree book, but interesting, none the less. The interest in this book is that it is written about an Indian private detective, i.e. a private detective living in the country of India. Which is to say, this book is not at all like the books abou...
Vish Puri is 50ish, pudgy (if not worse), culturally conservative, and easily impressed with himself. And, seemingly, a pretty decent Private Investigator. Unlike most P.I.'s in fiction, he's not a lone wolf -- and he doesn't have one hyperviolent friend to back him up. He has a team -- working for ...
This book is what I wish The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency would have been. It's about an Indian detectives who solves mysteries and researches marriage partners. I love the humor in these books and how Vish Puri thinks he is like James Bond when he's not at all. Although he is a great private dete...
I picked up a copy of The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall at my local library after hearing it referred to from several sources as similar to Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Sadly, Tarquin's first book in the Vish Puri series lacks the grace that draw me t...
Interesting for the culture and the characters. It's definitely in the same family as cozy mystery but set in India. The family of characters, I especially liked the lead character's mother, a woman after my own heart, is fun to discover even if the lead character is a bit too pompous and full of hi...
Thanks, Abhishek, for recommending this to me!Vish Puri is a truly unique detective. If I were to try to describe him, I'd say, maybe, take Nero Wolfe but give him Stephanie Plum's friends and family, and set him down in Dehli. One of the things I loved the most about Vish Puri was that he isn't mor...
This book reminded me a great deal of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" books written by Alexander McCall Smith. McCall Smith writes about a Mwa Precious Ramotswe, a lady detective living in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, the sub Saharan country in Southern Africa. Tarquin Hall writes from ...
The comparison to Sherlock Holmes is way off, I'd say. Much closer in personality to Hercule Poirot.The settings and characters are interesting enough, though a bit thin. Seems to have taken its structure straight from No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, which makes me worry a bit about turning to Englis...
What a lovely book - a quirky but clever plot with believable characters capturing both the good and bad of India without polemics or drama. Deals very well with the main characters's attempts to reconcile his wish to make India fairer and the fact that he has to live in it.
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