Inspector Ghote plays a joker University of London Press Michael was branded a traitor

Michael was branded a traitor and his family exiled from courtly life after his father

November 1917

threatening to swallow everyone and everything

Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening

Inspector Ghote plays a joker University of London Press Michael was branded a traitorInspector Ghote embarks on one of his strangest cases when he is ordered to prevent a murder the killing of a precious flamingo in the Bombay zoo. And then there is the racehorse fancied to win the local Derby, which gets replaced by a donkey Ghote finds things going disastrously as bit by bit he unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker. But then the fun stops and Inspector Ghote has a more serious murder on his hands.