The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan

The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star by Vaseem Khan

The third installment in a charming mystery series set in Mumbai, featuring an inspector and his inherited elephant partner, who must track down a missing Bollywood star.

Mumbai is a city that thrives on extravagant spectacles and larger-than-life characters--but as Chopra is about to discover, even in the city of dreams, there is no guarantee of a happy ending.

Rising star and incorrigible playboy Vikram Verma has disappeared, leaving his latest film in jeopardy. Hired by Verma's formidable mother to find him, Inspector Chopra and his sidekick, baby elephant Ganesha, embark on a journey deep into the world's most flamboyant movie industry.

As they uncover feuding stars, failed investments and death threats, it seems that many people have a motive for wanting Verma out of the picture.

And yet, as Chopra has long suspected, in Bollywood the truth is often stranger than fiction ...

Vaseem Khan is the author of the Baby Ganesh Agency series and the Malabar House historical crime books, both set in India. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, his first book, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 15 languages. He received the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture, and Drama Prize for Writing in 2018. Vaseem was born in Newham, but worked as a management consultant in India for a decade.