Sujata Massey
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Perveen Mistry novels volume 1
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English
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"Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Mistry Law has been...
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English
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"India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal...
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Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 3
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay.
November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay...
November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay...
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Rei Shimura mysteries volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
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p. cm.
Language
English
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Rei Shimura, a California girl living in Tokyo, has an antiques business that's only slightly more successful than her love life. When her aunt enrolls her in the Kayama School of Ikebana to learn how to arrange flowers, disaster strikes. A mean teacher is found with scissors in her neck, and Takeo Kayama, the sexy billionaire heir to the school, considers Rei's aunt the main suspect.
Rei strives to prove her aunt's innocence but becomes enmeshed...
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The Ikat Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
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After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Rei Shimura's beloved mentor Yasushi Ishida sends an S.O.S.. Rei immediately takes off from her historic cottage in Hawaii to find him. The search, however, is complicated by the disappearance of Ishida-san's apprentice Mayumi, a troubled 19-year-old from a famous lacquer dynasty. As Rei wades through wreckage, and her husband Michael heads to Fukushima to battle a spiraling nuclear disaster,...
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Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seventh book in Sujata Massey's Agatha and Macavity Award–winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start bring antiques dealer and sometime sleuth Rei Shimura to Washington, DC. But just as she's starting to settle down –catching up with a long–lost cousin and undertaking a lucrative commission furnishing...
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Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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A young woman with a foothold in two cultures, Rei Shimura has gone wherever fortune and her unruly passions have led her throughout her chaotic twenties. Now, after the streamers for her thirtieth birthday celebration have been taken down, the Japanese-American antiques dealer and part-time sleuth finds herself with an assignment to find and authenticate an ancient Middle Eastern pitcher that disappeared from Iraq's national museum. The piece is...
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Rei Shimura mysteries volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
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viii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of her career: a renowned museum in Washington, D. C. , has invited her to exhibit her kimonos and give a lecture on them. Accompanied by a gaggle of Japanese office ladies bent on a week of shopping, Rei lands in the capital. But her big break could ultimately break her. Within hours one of the kimonos is stolen, and then Rei's passport is discovered in...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
349 pages.
Language
English
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"November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand...
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1921. Intrepid and intelligent, young Perveen Mistry joins her father's prestigious law firm to become one of India's first female lawyers. Her tumultuous past also makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's rights. When Mistry Law is appointed to execute the will of Omar Farid, a wealthy mill owner, Perveen's suspicions are aroused by a curious provision which could disinherit Farid's three widows and leave them vulnerable....
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