A Murder on Malabar Hill. Perveen Mistry Investigates by Sujata Massey. Published in 2018 by Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 7th floor, Infinity Tower C, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon 122002. Pp: 426. Price: Rs 399.
In A Murder on Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey’s (pictured) protagonist, Perveen Mistry, is an Oxford educated solicitor working in her father’s law firm. This is rare, as the novel is set in 1921 when the legal arena was a totally male dominated profession. In her acknowledgements, Massey mentions she was inspired by two outstanding Parsi women. The first, Cornelia Sorabjee, the first woman graduate of......