Publish Date
5 Sep, 2025
About This Book
‘Avarice and art, greed and guilt, passion and poison intertwine in this nail-biting, stay-up-all-nighter.’—Paro Anand In a leafy lane in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash-II, all is not well. Lakshmi Krishnamurthi, the lovable ‘Madrasi aunty’ of the neighbourhood, has not been seen for 48 hours. When her neighbour, Ragini Malhotra, accompanies Vikas, the local cop, to investigate, she finds a painting missing from the wall—a five-crore Husain. Meanwhile, far away, on the Mumbai-Pune highway, Pratap, a long-distance driver, is found stabbed to death. In the car with him that night were an unidentified man and Shobhana Shandilya, a glamorous Mumbai socialite, twice divorced, who has set her sights on the well-known scientist Afroz Ahmed as husband number three. Is there a connection between the two crimes? Housewife turned Sherlock Holmes Ragini Malhotra discovers that there may just be—when she meets Mrs Krishnamurthi’s niece, the nubile young Bharatanatyam dancer Saudamini, and the....
About The Author
Educationist, theatre director and activist Feisal Alkazi lives and works in New Delhi. Over the past forty years he has carved out his own niche with his group, Ruchika. He has directed over 200 plays with adults in Hindi, English and Urdu. Most recently, two plays written by him have been produced, Noor and A Quiet Desire. In addition he has directed over 100 productions for schools all over India, and in the field of disability, he has directed thirty documentary films. He is currently involved in the field of heritage education, initiating projects in Delhi, Jaipur, Srinagar and Hyderabad. He is the author of twenty books, including Rang Biranga Rangmanch which has sold 50,000 copies.
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