The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Hardcover) by Tarquin Hall

from cathyskye

First Line: Ensconced on the backseat of his Ambassador with the windows rolled up and the air conditioning working full blast, Vish Puri kept a wary eye on the crack in the car's windscreen. An eminent Indian scientist attends a morning class in a park and dies laughing when a Hindu goddess appe...

from reader68

Early one morning in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club session when an apparition of the goddess Kali appears and strikes one member dead. The battle between superstition and rationality in modern India. Excellent.

from bostonian71

Another fun installment in this series, though I would've preferred less exposition and more crime-solving (in particular, some biographical information for one of the supporting characters was introduced pretty clumsily and unnecessarily). Still worth the read for the entertaining atmosphere, th...

from kinsey_m

Even better than the case of the missing servant! I love Tarquin Hall's mistery novels and I'm hoping for a new Vish Puri adventure soon. Vish and his helpers are very well characterized as is the whole of India, and all of it is done with a great sense of homour and a good plot. Amidst all this,...

from nina.jon

Vish Puri - the Indian Poirot. This is the first of the Vish Puri detective series I've read and I wasn't sure what to expect. What I found was an Agatha Christie style whodunnit set in Delhi. Nonbeliever, Suresh Jha, is murdered by a Hindu goddess, supposedly in revenge for his cynicism. Did Kal...