Droll and convoluted as always. Puri can work the system and maneuver around people (except Rumpi and Mummi-Ji) to peel the mystery like an onion. This book is set in the cricket sports world of India, a sport with passions over the top both for the sport and also for the mega billion betting "business" on the sidelines, with the potential for careers and fortunes to be made or lost. Never having made it to Indis (hope to rememdy that) the brought to life descriptions of traffic, crowded cities, foods and family life enrich my reading and whet my appetite (literally) for Indian cuisine and also for the newx Tarquin Hall Puri mystery. Definitely recommend this book to anyone with even one gene of curiosity about the world and people outside your home town.

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