A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

Paul Theroux

288 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction mystery travel adventurous mysterious slow-paced
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Jerry Delfont leads an aimless life in Calcutta, struggling in vain against his writer's block, or 'dead hand,' and flitting around the edges of a half-hearted romance. Then he receives a mysterious letter asking for his help. The story it tells i...

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