Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March''s Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March''s award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay.
1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British Bombay. It''s a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim, now a detective at the Dupree Agency, is teaching Diana the art of deduction he-s learned from his idol, Sherlock Holmes.
Everyone is talking about the preparations for the World''s Fair in Chicago: the grandeur, the speculation, the trickery. Captain Jim will experience it first-hand: he''s being sent to Chicago to investigate the murder of a man named Thomas Grewe. As Jim probes the underbelly of Chicago-s docks, warehouses, and taverns, he discovers deep social unrest and some deadly ambitions.
