It's said that murder will out, and it is a mixed blessing when it does so in fiction.

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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>The plot of Swarup&#39;s Six Suspects should sound familiar. Vicky Rai, the spoiled son of a UP chief minister, walks into a fashionable restaurant; when waitress Ruby Gill refuses to serve him a drink, he kills her. Seven years later, Vicky Rai is murdered at one of his own parties. Six of the people there are carrying guns, but which one of them did it?
</p><p class='TableClas'>Few readers will have difficulty recognising the real-life crime that inspired the book 

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