"Bombay Ice" by Leslie Forbes, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1998. Stated First American Edition. Author's first book.

Dust jacket with un-clipped price on the front flap, hard boards, original black cloth spine, silvery decorations and lettering on front board and spine, 6.1/4" x 9.1/4"; 418 pages, very good/ fine condition.

"An Indian 'Miss Smilla' set in Bombay; interwoven with this utterly gripping detective story is a remarkable layering of knowledge gleaned from old books on storms, the monsoon, poisons and magical transformations, the narrator's fascination with chaos theory and her passionate interest in fate. It is an extraordinarily accomplished, sophisticated and intelligent novel." [a review]

"An amusingly overstuffed first novel by a Canadian-born British journalist... skillfully recounts the labyrinthine adventures of a resilient heroine who's part James Bond, part Ripley (from Alien). "Roz Bengal" (born Rosalind Benegal), daughter of a Scottish father and Indian mother, is called away from her career as a BBC Radio writer-producer to return to India (her birthplace) and the aid of her married half-sister Miranda. The latter's fears for her life have something to do with the ritual murders of transsexual prostitutes, and rather more to do with the creepy demeanor of her husband Prosper, a prominent director and eminence in Bombay's thriving film industry. Every door that the intrepid Roz opens, so to speak, reveals further trapdoors and secret passageways..." [excerpts from a Kircus review]

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