Trapped for months at home with nothing to do all day/ By a virus that refuses to go away/I sought refuge in stories about techs and spies/Set back in time, with history in a new guise.
I begin this account of my lockdown reading of period piece thrillers with Madhulika Liddle whose three novels, An Englishman’s Cameo, Engraved in Stone and Crimson City and a collection of stories, The Eighth Guest are set in Shahjahan’s Delhi and have a local nobleman, Muzaffar Jung, as the detective protagonist. Apart from the absorbing tale what is most entertaining is the depiction of
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