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Peril at the Exposition

A Mystery

#2 in series

Audiobook
1 of 2 copies available
1 of 2 copies available

Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay.
1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim, now a detective at the Dupree Agency, is teaching Diana the art of deduction he's learned from his idol, Sherlock Holmes.
Everyone is talking about the preparations for the World's Fair in Chicago: the grandeur, the speculation, the trickery. And Jim will experience it first-hand: he's being sent to Chicago to investigate the murder of a man named Thomas Pettigrew. As Jim probes the underbelly of Chicago's docks, warehouses, and taverns, he discovers deep social unrest and some deadly ambitions.
When Jim goes missing, Diana must venture far from her comfort zone to find out what happened to her husband. Award-winning author Nev March mesmerized readers with her debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay. Now, in Peril at the Exposition, she wields her craft against the glittering landscape of the Gilded Age with spectacular results.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Safiyya Ingar and Vikas Adam capture the 1893 World's Fair in this sequel to MURDER IN OLD BOMBAY. The story now focuses on Lady Diana's detecting, rather than that of her husband, Captain James Agnihotri. Listeners meet the newlyweds in Boston before Agnihotri is sent to Chicago to investigate suspicious activities. Adam captures Agnihotri's determination to get to the bottom of things. Ingar reflects Diana's sensitivity and fears for her husband's safety as she travels to the fair with her manservant, Tobias. Ingar's best creation is Diana's maid, who poses as a man and discovers valuable clues. Glimpses of Chicago--including its wealthy investors and impoverished workers--offer a disturbing undertone. The narrators' high-spirited performances compensate for some weakness in the writing. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 16, 2022
      Edgar finalist March’s solid sequel to 2020’s Murder in Old Bombay takes Anglo-Indian Jim Agnihotri, a former British army captain, and his bride, Diana, whom he met while probing the supposed suicides of her sister and sister-in-law, from India to America in 1893. Before they can settle into their new life in Boston, Jim’s employers at the Dupree Detective Agency send him to Chicago, the site of the under-construction World’s Fair, to investigate the murder of a security guard. When weeks pass with no word from Jim, Diana gets increasingly anxious. She has more to worry about when a stranger shares a message in German intended for Jim referencing explosives. Diana then learns that Jim’s bosses are also uncertain of his whereabouts and that the colleague he was supposed to aid in Chicago has been killed. The redoubtable Diana bullies the Duprees into hiring her as an operative to follow her husband’s trail. The predictable plot marks this as a more conventional mystery than its predecessor, which was bolstered by its focus on Anglo-Indian politics. Fans of Rhys Bowen’s Molly Murphy series will find plenty to like.

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