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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator (Vish Puri Mysteries)
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing Vish Puri Most Private Investigator - Vish Puri Mysteries Author:Tarquin Hall The delightful, amusing, and deeply mysterious second novel to feature Vish Puri, a man after Hercule Poirot's heart, in a series that has already won diehard fans on three continents. — The bizarre murder of an Indian scientist in public by the goddess Kali is no laughing matter. Yet Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and... more » godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga class when the hideous deity appears from the mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The case is a first in the "annals of crime" according to Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators. To get at the truth, Puri and his team of unstoppable undercover operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum, home of India's ancestral magicians, to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges ? entering a world in which illusion and the supernatural are virtually indistinguishable.« less