<b>1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new historical mystery with a captivating heroine.</b><br /><b> </b><br />Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India's first female attorney, <i>The Widows of Malabar Hill</i> is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth.<br /><br />Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her.<br /><br />Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy
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