Murder in the Pettah
Jeanne Cambrai
Penguin
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483 pages/Rs 295
Dorothy Bell. Interesting name. Interesting person. Beautiful, certainly. Good girl. Bad girl. Tease. Samaritan. But it takes almost 500 pages to unravel the complicated skeins of her character as CV begins investigations into her murder about which we are tersely informed in the very first line of the book.
But Dorothy Bell is brought to life through her memory