Fannish Fifty: Perveen Mistry mysteries
May. 23rd, 2023 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitOne of the genre of mystery stories I enjoy are those set in India which provide not just a story, but an insight into what India was like at the time. The Perveen Mistry novels written by Sujata Massey. They are set in 1921 where Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay. She is part of a Parsi family and has joined her father in his law firm.
Being a female lawyer means that at times she is able to speak to clients who her father cannot meet, as is the case with the first novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. In the second novel The Satapur Moonstone she travels to the princely state of Satapur to speak to two maharanis about the education of the crown prince. And the third novel (a fourth is due out this year) The Bombay Prince includes the visit of the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) to India at the end of 1921.
I find the novels entertaining, especially for the insight into life in Bombay (now Mumbai) at the time. If you think the subject area would interest you, then I recommend trying these books out.
Being a female lawyer means that at times she is able to speak to clients who her father cannot meet, as is the case with the first novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. In the second novel The Satapur Moonstone she travels to the princely state of Satapur to speak to two maharanis about the education of the crown prince. And the third novel (a fourth is due out this year) The Bombay Prince includes the visit of the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) to India at the end of 1921.
I find the novels entertaining, especially for the insight into life in Bombay (now Mumbai) at the time. If you think the subject area would interest you, then I recommend trying these books out.
