This was very good, a debut novel by an Indian brought up in Scotland about Calcutta just after the 1st world war. The central character is an English detective, traumatised by the war and sent to India perhaps for a change of scene. In Calcutta he encounters a web of corruption mainly based around the English and Scottish community, who are behaving as colonials normally do. Despite opposition, lies and deceit from most people he manages to solve the murder, in the course of which he discovers that most of his friends/apparent allies have been lying to him. An interesting take on India by an Indian origin writer to use a white English middle class policeman as his central character. But it works, perhaps because of this paradox.
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