![]() ![]() ![]() Perveen resents the continuance of British rule and administration in India, and she has to hide her nationalist beliefs and her admiration for Gandhi when she is persuaded to accept this commission from the British for her father’s law firm. ![]() Having solved the mystery of a murder at Malabar Hill (related in Sujata Massey’s last book, reviewed here), and demonstrated her usefulness in dealing with women who observe purdah, Perveen Mistry, the first woman lawyer in Bombay, has been commissioned by the British administrators of the district to investigate the reasons for this dispute. Now, his widowed mother and his grandmother, the dowager maharani, are in bitter dispute over how best to continue his education. His father and his elder brother have died, so he has inherited the throne of this small, remote Indian kingdom. India 1922: The Crown Prince of Satapur, Jiva Rao, is only 10 years old. Sujata Massey’s 1920s crime series featuring lawyer Perveen Mistry continues in the absorbingly tangled mystery of The Satapur Moonstone. Tags: crime fiction/ historical fiction/ Indian crime fiction/ Perveen Mistry series/ Sujata Massey ![]()
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