The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator
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Hall, Tarquin
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Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator
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Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga class when goddess Kali appears from the mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The case is a first in the "annals of crime," according to Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators. Puri and his team of unstoppable undercover operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum, home of India's ancestral magicians, to the holy city of Haridwar on the Ganges.

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Street Date:
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Tarquin Hall. (2010). The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Tarquin Hall. 2010. The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. Blackstone Publishing.

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Tarquin Hall, The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. Blackstone Publishing, 2010.

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Tarquin Hall. The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2010.

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