Ragtime in Simla Hanif Kureishi From the smoke-filled gentlemen's clubs

From the smoke-filled gentlemen's clubs of London to the steamy jungles of the Guinea Coast

and one of Hilary Mantels most original works

and rides with him into the hills

With the embers of war cooling to a precarious peace across Europe

he's on the track of a serial killer - with the help of a street-liver and an ex-English teacher pensioner

Ragtime in Simla Hanif Kureishi From the smoke-filled gentlemen's clubsThe second novel featuring Joe Sandilands and the exotic location of India in the 1920s. When Commander Joe Sandilands travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the back of the Governor's car on the road to Simla, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation.