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Sujata Massey (pictured) has published two novels, The Widows of Malabar Hill and The Satapur Moonstone where the central character is a Parsi detective, Perveen Mistry. But Massey is not new to mystery fiction. She lived in Japan with her husband between 1991-1993 where she created the Rei Shimura mystery series centered around an underpaid English teacher in Tokyo who becomes an amateur sleuth. Has she always been interested in historical mystery fiction? "Yes,” she says. "When I was a student at John Hopkins University, the teachers were all professional novelists and journalists, like John Barth, famous for metafictional and......