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Ragtime in Simla / Barbara Cleverly.
"When his traveling companion is killed at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands investigates and finds himself digging into another related murder."--from NoveList.
Record details
- ISBN: 0786712465 :
- ISBN: 9780786712465 :
- Physical Description: 287 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
- Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf, 2003.
- Copyright: ©2002
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The second in the detective Joe Sandilands series." |
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| Subject: | British > India > Fiction. Police > India > Fiction. Sandilands, Joe (Fictitious character) > Fiction. India > History > British occupation, 1745-1947 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville | FIC CLEVERLY, BARBARA "SANDILANDS" BK.2 (Text) | 33946001507156 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Monticello-Union Twp PL - Monticello | F CLEVERLY (Text) | 37743001457698 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Plainfield-Guilford Twp PL - Plainfield | FIC Cleverly (Text) | 120891001848153 | fiction | Available | - |
| Westfield Washington PL - Westfield | MYS Cleverly (Text) | 78292000204756 | Adult Fiction Books | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
When his traveling companion is killed at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands investigates and finds himself digging into another related murder. - Baker & Taylor
When his traveling companion is assassinated at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside in a touring car, Scotland Yard detective and recent arrival in the post-World War I Raj Joe Sandilands investigates the crime and soon finds himself digging into another, earlier murder that is almost certainly related. - Blackwell North Amer
Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills, the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal court for the socialites. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age.
It is toward this delightful country that detective Joe Sandilands is heading as the guest of Sir George Jardine, the governor of Bengal. But when Joe's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the governor's car on the road up to Simla, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation. Confronted by the mystery of an identical unsolved killing a year before, Joe realizes that Sir George's hospitality comes at a high price.
As Joe begins to unravel a mystery which has its roots in the aftermath of the First World War, he discovers that behind the sparkling facade of social life in Simla lies a trail of murder, vice and blackmail. Someone in this close-knit community has a sinister secret and the nearer Joe comes to uncovering it, the nearer he comes to his own death. - Perseus PublishingWorld War I hero and Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is traveling to Simla, summer capital of the British Raj, when he is thrust abruptlyâand bloodilyâinto his second case of serial murder: His traveling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the Governor of Bengalâs touring car at a crossroads known as Devilâs Elbow. Like Cleverlyâs award-winning and enthusiastically reviewed The Last Kashmiri Rose, which debuted Sandilands, Ragtime in Simla effectively combines exotic settings with high suspense in a deftly plotted tale of 1920s India. At Simla, in the pine-scented Himalayan hills, the English colonials have re-created a bit of home with half-timbered houses, glittering dinner tables, amateur theatricals, and gymkhanas. But when Joeâs murder investigation turns up an identical unsolved killing a year earlier, he begins to uncover behind the close-knit communityâs sparkling facade a sinister trail of blackmail, vice, and deadly secrets.
- Perseus PublishingWorld War I hero and Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is traveling to Simla, summer capital of the British Raj, when he is thrust abruptlyâand bloodilyâinto his second case of serial murder: His traveling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the Governor of Bengal's touring car at a crossroads known as Devil's Elbow. Like Cleverly's award-winning and enthusiastically reviewed The Last Kashmiri Rose, which debuted Sandilands, Ragtime in Simla effectively combines exotic settings with high suspense in a deftly plotted tale of 1920s India. At Simla, in the pine-scented Himalayan hills, the English colonials have re-created a bit of home with half-timbered houses, glittering dinner tables, amateur theatricals, and gymkhanas. But when Joe's murder investigation turns up an identical unsolved killing a year earlier, he begins to uncover behind the close-knit community's sparkling facade a sinister trail of blackmail, vice, and deadly secrets.
