Meanwhile, she is also fighting her feelings for Archie and at home, her father Sam is starting to act very strangely, and she can’t seem to guess why. And her boss, Roshan Seth, assigns her a young girl to mentor, another role she is very reluctant to undertake for she is comfortable only when at police work. We follow Persis as she investigates the cases, while also having to deal with Oberoi’s contempt (and incompetence). Nothing seemingly connects the matters, yet the way some of these at least were killed is too similar to overlook. Before long, a third murder is added to the list, a catholic priest, and a particularly orthodox one. Meanwhile, another couple, an Italian businessman Stephen Renzi and his Indian wife, Leela, daughter of a prominent politician are found murdered, and Persis’ boss assigns her investigation jointly with her arch rival, Oberoi who has strong opinions about women serving in the force. Forensic examination shows the man was murdered. The only thing found with the body is a book with a Bombay stamp and so the case finds its way to Bombay and Malabar House. This book opens with two mountaineers on a spontaneous climb finding and old frozen corpse-the Ice Man-in a cave somewhere in the Himalayas above Dehradun. Alongside, we follow her personal life-she lives with her father, Sam who runs a bookstore, and cat Akbar she is romantically interested in Archie Blackfinch, an English forensic examiner but reluctant to take things further because of its implications. Persis who as the only female inspector in the police at the time is not quite as welcome in all quarters, is posted at Malabar House, a station manned by officers who have for different reasons fallen out of favour with the powers that be, and which often is handed cases politically or otherwise sensitive, which no one else wishes to deal with. The Lost Man of Bombay is book 3 in the Malabar House historical mystery series by Vaseem Khan set in 1950s Bombay around Persis Wadia, India’s first (fictional) female inspector. My thanks to Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley for a review copy of this book.
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