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Author Theroux, Paul.

Title A dead hand : a crime in Calcutta / Paul Theroux.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

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Description 279 pages ; 24 cm
Summary When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die?
Subject Travel writers -- Fiction.
Travel writers.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Americans -- India -- Fiction.
Americans.
India.
Kolkata (India) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
ISBN 9780547260242
0547260245