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Mourning raga

Edith Pargeter

1969157 pagesabout 2–4 hours
1969
first published
  • 1969Macmillan · 189 pages · ENGISBN 9780333104972
  • 1970Morrow · 220 pages · ENG
  • 1973Panther · 157 pages · ENGISBN 9780586036501
  • 1990Headline · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780747202318
  • 2015MysteriousPress.com · 189 pages · ENGISBN 9781504027144
  • 1996ISIS Audio Books · ENGISBN 9781856959926
  • 1970William MorrowISBN 9780688021207
  • 1988Trafalgar Square · 192 pagesISBN 9780747231219

As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress back to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjli is no sinecure—and the task of delivering her back to her family proves even less easy. Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country—remote, mysterious—and often shatteringly brutal...

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