Murder at the Mushaira : (Record no. 66355)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788194937258
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number Fiction MIR-R
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mir, Raza
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Murder at the Mushaira :
Remainder of title a novel /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Raza Mir
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. India
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Aleph Book Company
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 344 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code INR
Price amount 799.00
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note 3 May 1857. India stands on the brink of war. Everywhere in its cities, towns, and villages, rebels and revolutionaries are massing to overthrow the ruthless and corrupt British East India Company which has taken over the country and laid it to waste. In Delhi, the capital, even as the plot to get rid of the hated foreigners gathers intensity, the busy social life of the city hums along. Nautch girls entertain clients, nawabs host mushairas or poetry soirees in which the finest poets of the realm congregate to recite their latest verse and intrigue, the wealthy roister in magnificent havelis, and the drinking dens of the city continue to pack in customers.<br/>One morning, Kallu, a retainer at a Delhi haveli, cleaning up after a grand mushaira, discovers a poet stabbed to death with a polished agate dagger. Gruesome as it is, the murder appears to be a fairly run of the mill crime until anxious officials of the East India Company make it a matter of the highest priority. Instructions are issued for the murderer to be found and arrested immediately. But who is the killer? The dead man had many enemies and the investigating officer Kiromal Chainsukh soon discovers there are dozens of suspects, an equal number of motives, and waves of secrets and lies that threaten to overwhelm him. As the pressure on him to solve the crime increases, Chainsukh turns to Mirza Ghalib, poet laureate and amateur detective, for help. Ghalib’s tools are his formidable intelligence, intimate knowledge of the machinations of Delhi high society, ferocious curiosity, and reliance on the new science of forensics that his friend the scientist Master Ramachandra has introduced him to. As Ghalib begins to collect evidence and dig into the case, he uncovers an ever-widening list of suspects, and a sinister conspiracy that involves many of Delhi’s most important men and women.<br/>Set against the backdrop of India’s First War of Independence, Murder at the Mushaira is at once a brilliantly constructed murder mystery and the finest historical novel by an Indian author in recent times.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Murder - Fiction
952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA)
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  Dewey Decimal Classification     FIC BITS Pilani Hyderabad BITS Pilani Hyderabad Fiction "1st Floor" 30/03/2021 799.00 2 Fiction MIR-R 41910 13/07/2024 11/08/2023 30/03/2021 Books
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