A man with a big future. Mukerji A.

India, 1919. Desperately wanting to start all over again, Captain Sam Windham arrives from Britain to occupy an important post in the Calcutta police. Soon he is called in place of a strange murder. The victim of a high -ranking official, the body was found in a slum quarter where the Europeans are not there, the crumpled note in his mouth requires the British to leave India, otherwise new victims will follow. Captain Windham takes as assistants to the first police officer, sergeant Banerji, nicknamed the Non-Dequest. It quickly turns out that the story is much more confusing than the political murder. Atmospheric, in the spirit of Konan Doyle Detective, unfolding in bright decorations of colonial India. This is the first book from the detective series about Windham and indestructible. The novel received the prestigious CWA Endeavour Dagger genre Prize for the best historical detective.