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After a half decade in which the wife of an officer in the Bengal Grays in Panikhat, India, has died violently each March, one for the past five years, the governor of Bengal, local police authorities, and visiting Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands find themselves probing the bizarre coincidences that link the deaths as they pursue a dangerous serial killer. Reprint.
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In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured six sultry months in English-ruled Calcutta. Sandilands is ordered to investigate, and soon discovers that there have been other mysterious deaths, hearkening sinister ties to the present case.Now, as the sovereignty of Britain is in decline and an insurgent India is on the rise, Sandilands must navigate the treacherous corridors of political decorum to bring a cunning killer to justice…knowing the next victim is already marked to die.
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