Death of a Lesser God

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In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India? Bombay, 1950 John Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Farid Mazumdar, is two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, at loggerheads with the Indian government since Independence, forces a new investigation into the killing. As Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police investigates, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, she uncovers a possible link to a second case, the brutal murder of an African-American G.I. during the Calcutta Killings of 1946. How are the cases connected? If Whitby didn't murder Mazumdar, then who did? And why?