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While on vacation in India, Dominic Felse investigates the violent deaths of two landowners Landlords are never popular, and there is little mourning when the greedy, ruthless Mahendralal Bakhle is blown up on his boat on the beautiful Periyar Lake. Suspicion falls on the boat-boy who died with him, but Dominic Felse, one of a party of young tourists visiting the landlord's game reserve, is not convinced of the boy's guilt. And when the party moves on to the next destination, the terror show more pursues all the way to the southernmost tip of India. The police blame local terrorists targeting wealthy landlords, but what would that have to do with a group of innocent travelers? To get to the bottom of this trail of violence, Dominic Felse must unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder. Death to the Landlords is the 11th book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. show lessTags
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I don't really like this one, because I remember the conclusion and it's so pitiful and nasty that it flavors everything else. I'd actually forgotten the exciting bit at the end, and who was behind the whole thing, which was much better than what I did remember. So it gets three-and-a-half stars, because I spent the whole first half of the book wincing and looking for foreshadowing (which is there, but not really visible unless you know what's going on behind the scenes. Not to me, anyway). Probably my least favorite of the Dominic Felse books, which means it's only good.
This twentieth century mystery is set in India and involves the murder of a several landlords. Dominic Felse, son of an English detective, must solve the murders.
The book is about terrorist plots and bombings and is set in 1960's India. The book is fast paced and the surprise ending was excellent. I did miss Tossa though in this.
This is a Dominic Felse mystery set in India in the 1950's. Dominic is the son of an English policeman who appears in her earlier books. In this book he is travelling in India and gets involved in a terrorist plot.
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Ellis Peters is the pseudonym for Edith Pargeter, who was born in Horsehay, Shropshire. She was a chemist's assistant from 1933 to 1940 and participated during World War II in the Women's Royal Navy Service. The name "Ellis Peters" was adopted by Edith Pargeter to clearly mark a division between her mystery stories and her other work. Her brother show more was Ellis and Petra was a friend from Czechoslovakia, thus the name. She came to writing mysteries, she says, "after half a lifetime of novel-writing." Her detective fiction features well-rounded, knowledgeable characters with whom the reader can empathize. Her most famous literary creation is the medieval monk Brother Cadfael. The blend of history and the formula of the detective story gives Peters's works their popular appeal. As detective hero, Brother Cadfael remains faithful to the requirements of the formula, yet the historical milieu in which he operates is both fully realized and well textured. Peters received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award in 1963 and the Crime Writers Association's Silver Dagger Award in 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Death to the Landlords!
- Original title
- Death to the Landlords!
- Original publication date
- 1972
- People/Characters
- Dominic Felse
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- 6 — Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
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- 17
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