![]() Massey does a marvellous job of setting the stage in the first section. Mistry, who was introduced inĪ Murder on Malabar Hill, is taken out of her comfort zone in the city and dropped into a feudal set-up where what looks like a straightforward case of conflict resolution soon turns into power struggles and paternity issues. The former wants to send him to a school in England the latter wants him to be taught in the palace itself.Īs if this weren’t enough, you have the grand setting of a palace in the Sahyadri mountains surrounded by jungles, murky pasts, purdah, poisons and murder. The king’s mother and grandmother are fighting about how he should be educated. The new king is a 10-year-old and the state is being governed by his uncle in consultation with the British agent, Colin Sandringham. Take a look: the maharaja of Satapur dies of cholera and his teenage son and heir soon follows in a hunting accident. Saas-bahu conflict beloved of our television serials. ![]() ![]() Halfway into Sujata Massey’s second Perveen Mistry mystery, I couldn’t help thinking that the situation has great potential for the kind of ![]()
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