A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta Format:Trade Paperback and there’s a chance not

and there’s a chance not all of them will survive

This is dystopian fiction at its best

To curl into balls just beyond gravity’s grip

But is he seeking justice—or fleeing painful memories in London

In the twilight between sleep and consciousness

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta Format:Trade Paperback and there’s a chance notWhen Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writers block (his dead hand), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her sons, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a patch of carpet, and a package containing a human hand? He is swiftly captivated by the beautiful,