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Article: Books: Crime and detection ; A tubby, chilli-eating, brainy private investigator enlivens a mystery.
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- India Today
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- June 29, 2009
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THE CASE OF THE MISSING SERVANT
by Tarquin Hall
Hutchinson
Price: Rs 425, Pages: 312
Vish Puri is the founder, owner and managing director of Most
Private Investigators Ltd (Confidentiality is our Watchword), a
Delhi-based company which boasts a 100 per cent success rate. Fondly
nicknamed Chubby by his prescient parents, Puri is admittedly rather
portly, 51 years old, addicted to green chillies and, on account of
a somewhat short left leg, forced to wear orthopaedic shoes with
rubber soles that squeak embarrassingly on the high-gloss floors of
elite establishments.
But lest you should infer that he is a figure of fun, Puri is a
brain-box whose amazing powers of deduction would make ...