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“A dead hand: a crime in Calcutta” by Paul Theroux

“Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's de ella, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why?

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See also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/books/review/Goodwin-t.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/05/dead-calcutta-paul-theroux-review

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Theroux

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A dead hand: a crime in Calcutta / Paul Theroux. — London: Penguin books, 2010. — 264 p. ; 20cm

ISBN 978-0-141-04416-3

PS3537.H4 D43 2010

R. 97451