The Dying Day av Vaseem Khan

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<P>''<B><I>The Da Vinci Code</I> meets post-Independence India. </B>I''d be surprised if I read a better book this year''<B> M. W. CRAVEN</B><br><br>''This is a crime novel for everyone; for those who love traditional mysteries there are clues, codes and ciphers, but it also had a harder edge and a post-war darkness. Brilliant'' <B>ANN CLEEVES</B><br><br><B>A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.</B><br>For over a century, one of the world''s great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante''s <I>The Divine Comedy</I>, has been safely housed at Bombay''s Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia''s desk. <br><br>Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch - is soon on the trail. But then they discover the first body. <br><br>As the death toll mounts it bec