Mystery Readers Book Group

Murder in Old Bombay / Nev March

In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India., Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, With little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers, a case catches his eye, as being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university’s clock tower in broad daylight. Moved by Adi, the widower of one of the victims ― his certainty that his wife and sister did not commit suicide ― Captain Jim approaches the Parsee family and is hired to investigate what happened that terrible afternoon.  Based on true events.