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THE DYING DAY - VASEEM KHAN TASCHENBUCH

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.    Bombay  1950   For over a
century  one of the world's great treasures  a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine
Comedy   has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes  together
with the man charged with its care  British scholar and war hero  John Healy  the case lands on
Inspector Persis Wadia's desk.  Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse  Persis
- together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then
they discover the first body.  As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is
also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it . . .  Harking
back to an era of darkness  this second thriller in the Malabar House series pits Persis  once
again  against her peers  a changing India  and an evil of limitless intent.   Gripping 
immersive  and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit  this is historical fiction at its finest.

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