# City of Destruction: The Gripping and Unputdownable New Malabar House Mystery - Hardcover

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by **Vaseem Khan** (Author)

**'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more'** CHRIS WHITAKER  
**'Historical fiction at its finest'** _MAIL ON SUNDAY_

**From the award-winning author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSE and THE LOST MAN OF BOMBAY comes a brilliant new mystery featuring the inimitable Persis Wadia.**

**Bombay, 1951.** A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours.

With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain's MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. As she pursues both investigations - with and without official sanction - she soon finds herself headed to the country's capital, New Delhi, a city where ancient and modern India openly clash.

Meanwhile, Persis's colleague, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life as all around him the country tears itself apart in the prelude to war...

### Author Biography

**Vaseem Khan's**acclaimed Baby Ganesh Agency crime series won the Shamus Award in the US, with _The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra_ selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, now translated into 16 languages. The first novel in the Malabar House series, _Midnight at Malabar House_, won the CWA Historical Dagger 2021 and was shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award. Vaseem lives in London.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 1.17 x 9.41 x 6.45 IN

**Publication Date:** March 04, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 33.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Crime, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Thrillers, Women Sleuths

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