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Now featuring mouthwatering recipes from the Vish Puri family kitchen, this installment in Tarquin Hall’s mystery series offers a taste of India alongside the thrill of a rich and fulfilling whodunit mystery.

Dubbed “a wonderfully engaging P.I.” (The Times, London), Tarquin Hall’s irresistible protagonist Vish Puri has become an international favorite through a series that “splendidly evokes the color and bustle of Delhi and the tang of contemporary India” (Seattle Times). Now the gormandizing, spectacularly mustachioed sleuth finds himself facing down his greatest fears in an explosive case involving the Indian and Pakistani mafias.

When the elderly father of a top Pakistani cricketer playing in a new multimillion-dollar cricket league dies frothing at the mouth during a post-match dinner, it’s not a simple case of Delhi Belly. His butter chicken has been poisoned. To solve the case, Puri must penetrate the region’s organized crime, following a trail that leads deep into Pakistan—the country in which many members of the P.I.’s family were massacred during the 1947 partition of India. The last piece of the puzzle, however, turns up closer to home when Puri learns of the one person who can identify the killer. Unfortunately it is the one person in the world with whom he has sworn never to work: his Mummy-ji.

With riotously entertaining prose, a boisterous cast of characters, and a pitch-perfect sense of place, Tarquin Hall has crafted a gripping whodunit that takes us deep into Indian history and society. He brings a hugely appealing culture to life with all its sights, sounds, smells, foods, and complexity. As the title implies, The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken is a succulent read by a writer at the top of his game.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0061Q6BE6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (July 10, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 10, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4560 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 354 pages
Reviewer: Mary L. Barnich
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: VIsh Puri - Way more fun than Sherlock Holmes
Review: Tarquin Hall scores again. What a great book with many laugh-out-loud moments! This is the latest and best of his three-part series on the great Indian detective Vish Puri, head of India's most trusted detective agency. The "Chubby," as he is known to his childhood pals, detective battles his weight behind the scenes, scarfing up something wonderful-sounding at every stop, even fixing his home scales so it won't reflect his errant ways. Puri's self-given names for his own Delhi Baker Street Irregulars never cease to amuse: Tubelight, Chanel #5, Face Cream. The detective has a whole new cast, or caste, to name. But what makes this the best Tarquin Hall yet was the recurring involvement of Mummi-ji, his mother, who gets caught up with the action in almost every case. In this book, her involvement is more than meddling as we read about the partition of Pakistan and Indian in 1947 and learn the heart-breaking tale of the thousands of women who were kidnapped and kept on "the other side," by both the Indians and the Pakis. As usual, Hall includes the glossary at the back so you can learn a little street-Indian as you go. And, as an added attraction, the Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken includes Hall's recipe for, what else, Butter Chicken. I work with many Indians in the IT industry and enjoyed the closeness with their home that this wonderful book gave me. It was a great delight and I recommend it as a gift for any reader. It was an intriguing story, but an even better introduction to a country that is a great mystery to most of us.

Reviewer: Nav J
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I have enjoyed thoroughly, only
Review: Tarquin Hall continues his streak of excellent caricatures of Delhi. Both amusing and interesting as a novel in and of itself, it gains new layers of interest for anyone who has lived in India, or especially Delhi. I've read all his books so far after being turned on to the second by an uncle with excellent taste in books. This book also raises the bar on character development and adds the backdrop of historical tragedy, taking it a notch above his previous work.

Reviewer: C. Lewis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun books as audio books, too!
Review: After listening to the first two audio books, I could not wait to get my hands on this one. It did not disappoint. In fact, it was even better than the first two. I love the family and intertwining plots. Each book weaves a slightly more complex set of cases than the previous one, but the characters are funny, consistent and endearing. The narrator, Dastor, has narrated all three books, and his accents make the story easier to follow. Because I am listening to it, I am unfamiliar with some of the terms, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying them. At a certain point in listening to this audio book, I wondered if it was offensive, so I asked an Indian friend to listen to the first one (the Missing Servant), and she didn't think it was. In fact, she also borrowed the second one! I am now on Love Commandos, and it is EXCELLENT so far, as well. I hope Hall continues turning out these stories for some time to come.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fun romp
Review: An enjoyable and speedy read full of oddball characters. I enjoyed getting a peek at life in India as well.

Reviewer: Zaphod
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The most delicious of the Vish Puri series thus far
Review: Tarquin Hall's masala creation - the quintessential Punabi Delhiite Vish Puri aka "chubby", a detective with a fun family and a delightful ensemble of staff helpers - is back. This time, Hall selects a mystery set on no less than Cricket match fixing, trading of blood diamonds, and a back-drop of the bloody India-Pakistan partition in 1947. Mummy-ji, Vish Puri's aged mother, features doing her best sleuth work thus far, despite the detective's belief that "mummies are not detectives".Hall once again manages to masterfully capture the nuances of an Indian life in general, and that of Delhi particular. As a Delhiite myself, I am always surprised by his deep understanding of the city's subculture, and knowledge of the best and the worst that the city offers. He certainly has a keen ear for the colloquial "Indian" English, with sentences missing articles and verbs at their end (e.g. "hunger is there"), making his books a delightful hilarious read. In this particular book, the accounts of contemporary cricket on the Inidan subcontinent, and of the partition in 1947, are particularly interesting. The long descriptions of the food always leaves one with longing, and the book provides some recipes in the end (I found this amusing). Some part of the mystery were "out there" (e.g.: a bloody assasination and chase at a farm house party), but overall, it was fun.A big thank you again to the author for writing this fun read, and hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the next addition to this Delhi-detective series.

Reviewer: abhishek sapra designs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: You can't miss this in this life

Reviewer: Normand Bourque
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It is a captivating novel, I can actually see the places the author is talking about and I also love the "Indian" grammar

Reviewer: Pedro
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Excelente novela, aún mejor que otras que había leído del mismo autor. Además de la trama policíaca, la psicología de los personajes y la ambientación en la sociedad india, la novela pone de relieve aspectos muy interesantes de las relaciones entre India y Pakistán.

Reviewer: Laetitia de Warren
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A good indian yarn... Even for those who, like me, know nothing about cricket... Also, another strong example of the appalling mess colonialism leaves behind, in this instance the Indo-Pakistani war, with women, as usual, being the innocent victims.

Reviewer: Noel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The Case of the Missing Servant The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri 1) introduced my to Vish Puri, Rumpi his wife and of course the matriachal mummyji. I loved that story and have looked forward to each addition to the series. 'The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken' is third in the series and is every bit as entertaining as its two predecessors.Vish Puri or 'Chubby' as his family call him, is a corpulent private detective in Delhi with an idiosyncratic use of spoken English. Rumpi has decided he needs to lose some of his 90kgs but temptation is always there. His casework is as unusual as his use of English and in this case the Deadly Butter Chicken is the weapon chosen by a murderer. It takes Mummyji's intervention to help identify that killer and we learn a lot about her past at the time of partition when had to flee from Punjab to Delhi. But that's not the only murder to be solved and Puri reluctantly makes his first terrifying visit to the arch enemy - Pakistan. Ofcourse there is also the case of the moustache thief to solve as well.Puri is ably assisted by his usual team of unusual helpers including Facecream, Handbrake, Tubelight, & Chanel No. 5 to name just a few. I thoroughly enjoyed this latest tale of his detecting skills. It combines a good plot with good fun. It is very cleverly written to get the balance right between these two. It made me smile a lot though the horrors of partition are not played for laughs. It is a great read.