Do you people listen to audiobooks❓❓❓ Is there any book where you liked the story but not the narrator ❓❓❓
Name of Book: The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Blackstone
Publication Date: 4 March 2025
Audio Length: 7 Hours 57 Minutes
Narrator: Vikas Adam
For Vish Puri, India’s most private detective, the news that he has won the long-coveted International Detective of the Year award, to be presented in a glitzy ceremony in London, makes this the best day of his life.
But to his deep dismay, a senior bureaucrat from the Ministry of Finance gives him a secret mission he can’t refuse: to track down India’s most-wanted fugitive. Dr. Bhatt’s medicines caused the deaths of hundreds, and the billionaire fraudster—code named the Bombay Duck—fled for the United Kingdom before he could be arrested.
Puri is only spending a week in London. He has never set foot in the UK before. And most important of all, he has already promised his wife that he won’t do any work while they’re away.
There’s only one solution: lie, lie, lie.
Puri dives headfirst into the case, in between visiting all the tourist sites, aided and abetted by his formidable, meddling Mummy-ji, whom Puri definitely did not invite to join them. But can Puri hook the Bombay Duck and bring him to justice before the fugitive’s many enemies get to him first?
Tarquin Hall is the author of the Vish Puri mysteries, set in India. The first in the series, 'The Case of the Missing Servant', was named by the New York Times as a Notable Crime Book and given starred reviews by Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist. Hall divides his times between London and Delhi with his wife, Indian-born journalist Anu Anand, and their young son.
My Opinion
The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck by Tarquin Hall is the sixth book in the Vish Puri series. The book has an average plot with stereotypical characters. The narrator has assumed that English is the tone of Indians, but we never talk in English like this. It was so irritating. Vish Puri's character felt like an average detective. Maybe it was the narrator's voice that made me feel like this. Although the mystery was unwrapped gracefully with some final conclusion. It was the first book that I have read by this author. I would recommend everyone to not listen to audiobooks but to read hard copies only.
The most irritating character was Mummy Ji, who acts like she knows everything and disrupts every move of the detective. I had to skip every time she came in the book. I was hoping to have an exciting read, but it deserves only 3 stars.
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