Death under the Deodars

Name: Death under the Deodars
Rating: 4.522387981414795 (67 reviews)

Ruskin Bond

Jan 2018 · Penguin UK

4.5

67 reviews

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208

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‘Colonel Bakshi burst in, looking very agitated. “Something’s happened to Mrs Basu,” he said. “She’s lying outside in a fl ower bed. I think she’s dead . . .”’ In this marvellous collection of thrilling new stories set in the Mussoorie of a bygone era, Ruskin Bond recounts the deliciously sinister cases of a murdered priest, an adulterous couple, a man who is born evil, and a body in the box-bed, not to forget the strange happenings involving arsenic in the post, strychnine in the cognac, a mysterious black dog, and the Daryaganj strangler. As the elderly Miss Ripley-Bean, her Tibetan terrier, Fluff, the hotel pianist, Mr Lobo, and the owner of the Royal, Nandu, mull over these curious incidents, the reader will be enthralled and delighted—until the very end.

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4.5

67 reviews

Kevisetuo Suohu

July 30, 2019

This book fantastically describe everything such that it comes to life . I love the author. I wish I could write like him..

4 people found this review helpful

Debasis

December 8, 2020

I loved the book, the characters are so real that I felt I know them personally and offcourse the writing makes the stories more interesting to read.

2 people found this review helpful

Rudra

March 24, 2020

Love the way the stories are written. No lengthy stories. No drama. Nothing nonsense... pure Ruskin bond stories.. for which he is known.

About the author

Born in Kasauli in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over five hundred short stories, essays and novellas (some included in the collections Dust on the Mountain and Classic Ruskin Bond) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his 'total contribution to children's literature' in 2013 and was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2014. He lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.

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