Inspirée d’une histoire vraie, cette BD apporte des conseils et des solutions pour sortir de l'isolement
Bestseller author Sujata Massey is back with a third installment in her Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay and featuring Indias only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, as sleuth November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isnt surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But shes horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the princes grand procession is passing by her college. Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Feeling guilty for failing to have helped Freny in life, Perveen steps forward to assist Frenys family in the fraught dealings of the coroner''s inquest. When Freny''s death is ruled a murder, Perveen knows she can''t rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?
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