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Introducing an extraordinary feminine lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series occur 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined up with her father's lawyer, becoming main female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also offers a tragic personal history which makes her especially specialized in championing and protecting women's legal rights. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a rich Muslim mill owner who may have remaining three widows in back of. But as Perveen is certainly going through the paperwork, she notices something unusual: all three of the wives have agreed upon over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they go on if they forfeit what their spouse remaining them? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has agreed upon her form with an X - so this means she probably couldn't even browse the document. The Farid widows are in full purdah - in demanding seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being considered benefit of by an unethical guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts about the will were right when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to determine what really took place on Malabar Hill, and ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger. Inspired in part by a real girl who made history by becoming India's first female law firm, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought report of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of your sharp and promising new sleuth, Perveen Mistry.
