A body with no organs and inspector Ghote with a mission - but no clues. In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician's wife died under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse and the trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn't saved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate. But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so powerful, when the whole district is against him, and when a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying? But still the good inspector dutifully goes, carrying just the honour of his police force and a box of double-sized eggs . . . 'Keating has a long-established winner in his sympathetic and lively hero, and this is one of his most enjoyable cases.' TheTimes… (more)