A dead hand : crime in Calcutta / Paul Theroux

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011Description: 279 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780547394497
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • Fic
Summary: "When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a package containing a human hand?"--Cover
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"When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a package containing a human hand?"--Cover

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