Dust storms sweep the Mount Road and the surf booms on the shingle as Croker opens her story of Anglo-Indian Madras, where a young man sets out to trace someone who vanished years before. Between tennis, punkahs and the cheerful company of the Smith family, the search leads away from the cantonments into the older life of the Presidency.
A late mystery-romance from a popular Anglo-Indian novelist; its imperial outlook is very much that of 1913. Download the free EPUB.