Book Details:
Title : Inspector Singh investigates: A curious Indian Cadaver
Author: Shamini Flint
Price: Rs.350
Reading the title you may think that it might be an interesting
detective story in India. But, this book is not as curious as the title. For the
first few pages, we feel boring and the last half of the book will be fast paced
contrary to the first half. If we have
already read famous detective stories like Sherlock holme’s or Agatha Christie’s
etc., we may not like this plain detective story much. But if we don’t go with
any comparison, second half of the book is somewhat gripping and narration is interesting.
Plot:
An young scientist ‘Ashu Kaur’ disappears from house suddenly
before few days of her marriage. Inspector Singh who is visiting India to
attend her marriage agrees to solve the mystery. A dead body is found which is
confirmed as Ashu’s by her brother and Mr. Singh investigates the murder case. Mr.
Singh finds that the factory in which Ashu is working is responsible for a
serious disease in slums and since Ashu knew about that dangerous chemical, she
informed her boss on the same day she disappeared. He also finds that Ashu has a
lover who is a colleague in her factory ‘Sameer’ who is a muslim, but still
Ashu is ready to marry an MBA boy selected by the family as their family cannot
accept her to marry a Muslim. Now, what might be the reason for Ashu’s
disappearance? Did she she elope with Sameer? OR someone murdered her to suppress
the truth that she knows about the factory? OR she suicides to avoid marriage
with the boy selected by family?
Writing style:
Shamini’s writing style is simple, but sometimes it gets
boring. As she was a lawyer by profession, the investigation discussions seem
to be very well written with her experience. Pace of the story becomes very
fast at the end with story unfolding layer by layer.
My Rating:
A journey pass time read. I can give 2/5.
Until next time,
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