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http://shawjonathan.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/by-swapna-dutta/

This is a detective story for young readers, one of a series featuring a Bengali housewife and her niece. A wealthy man dies. His most precious possession, the eponymous diamond, has gone missing, and almost everyone in his household – and there are many – has had motive and opportunity to steal it. The plot has exactly the twists you'd expect, but the detectives' relationship and the details of their domestic life are well captured, and I learned a lot about the Armenian community in Calcutta, in a way that reminds me of grown-up detective writers (Sarah Paretsky comes to mind) who take us to a new subculture in each novel. The translation by Swapna Dutta makes all this brilliantly accessible to English readers.… (lisätietoja)
 
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4
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4
Suosituimmuussija
#1,536,815
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4.0
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1
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4
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1