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Title details for The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall - Available

The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing

From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator

#2 in series

by Tarquin Hall
Sam Dastor
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Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga class when goddess Kali appears from the mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The case is a first in the "annals of crime," according to Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators. Puri and his team of unstoppable undercover operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum, home of India's ancestral magicians, to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    June 15, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792772231
      • File size: 243394 KB
      • Duration: 08:27:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Members of the laughter therapy group can only laugh helplessly as the goddess Kali plunges a sword into Suresh Jha's heart. Then, the sword and the goddess disappear. India's Most Private Investigator, Vish Puri, a man as fussy as Poirot and every bit as clever, is called in to assist the police. Narrator Sam Dastor slips in and out of Indian accents that represent all classes, castes, and personalities. Puri works with a black-ops team--"Tubelight, Facecream, and Flush"--and Dastor makes each quirky yet affable. He's hilarious as Puri's Mummy-ji and his wife, Rumpi, attempt to solve a crime and appropriately precise as Puri himself, the man of a thousand opinions. This is the second book in a winning series. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 19, 2010
      Near the start of Hall's highly amusing second Vish Puri whodunit (after 2009's The Case of the Missing Servant
      ), Dr. Suresh Jha, the founder of the DIRE (Delhi Institute of Rationalism and Education), dies while doing his morning exercises on Delhi's Rajpath with the members of his laughing club, apparently slain by Kali, the four-armed goddess of destruction. In the media frenzy that follows, Insp. Jagat Prakash Singh turns for help to Puri, a believer in miracles, who's nonetheless skeptical of this one. Puri proceeds to unravel the many complications that keep the reader on tenterhooks until the final twist. Hall has an unerring ear for the vagaries of Indian English, the Indian penchant for punning acronyms, peculiarly Indian problems (“Guests are kindly requested not to do urination in water”), and an obvious affection for India, warts and all.

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  • English

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