The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey. Published in 2021 by Soho Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 4th Floor, Capital Tower 1, MG Road, Gurugram, 122002. Pp: 350. Price: Rs 499.
Meeting Perveen Mistry for a third time in Sujata Massey’s (pictured) The Bombay Prince is like encountering an old and familiar friend. She is Massey’s Miss Marple (the fictional detective in Agatha Christie’s crime novels), intelligent, persistent, endearingly human, Oxford educated and first woman solicitor in Bombay. Massey takes us back in time to November 1921, when Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was about to......