Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries: A Rising Man : A Novel (Hardcover)

from ritaer

Sam Wyndham has given up on England after the death of his wife in the post WWI flue epidemic. He decides to try his luck in India and accepts a post with the Calcutta police. His first case is the murder of a British official outside a brothel on the native side of town. HIs sergeant is a Hindu,...

from EBT1002

This was an engaging police procedural set in Calcutta in 1919. Sam Wyndham is fresh in country from Scotland Yard when a high-ranking sahib is found murdered in the alley behind a brothel. Sam and his sergeant follow the trails of clues through the administrative halls of the colonial government...

from Eyejaybee

This is a book that defies the standard genre categorisation. On the face of it, as a novel which recounts the investigation of the murder of a high ranking British official in Calcutta in 1919, one could easily classify it as a crime novel, or even a historical crime novel. The risk with that ca...

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I think the author created interesting characters and storyline to convey the prevailing political climate in India in 1919. The main character reflects on how difficult it is not to adopt the prevailing prejudice towards Indian natives but still works hard to find justice within a system rife wi...

from cathyskye

When I first picked up A Rising Man and began to read, I read it as I would any other historical mystery. I soon fell headfirst into a major roadblock: the slow-as-treacle pace. Fortunately, before I gave up and moved to another book, I realized that the setting of this book is absolutely fabulou...