A MURDER IN MUSSOORIE AND OTHER TALES

Category Literature & Fiction
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 195

ISBN: 978-93-5333-760-5
Pages: 120 pages
Date: 1st December 2019

ABOUT THIS BOOK

September 1911. The sleepy little hill-town of Mussoorie—British in its garb and Indian in its
soul—is jolted out of its reverie by a mysterious murder. A woman is found dead in her bed,
her body laid out perfectly, and the door locked from inside. Sundry suspects and sensational
speculations about black magic and crystal-gazing abound, but no one has been able to identify
the murderer. Outgrowing the small town, the story travels to all the way to faraway London, and catches the fancy of the master of mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle…
Interwoven with clever wit and lively humour, A Murder in Mussoorie and Other Tales will transport you to a world of wonder and adrenaline-pumping adventure.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

RUSKIN BOND is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of
several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children’s books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of twenty-three, he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from
three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India, and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie,
with his adopted family.