The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star - Paperback

by Vaseem Khan (Author)

The third installment in a charming mystery series set in Mumbai, featuring an inspector and his inherited elephant partner, who must track down a missing Bollywood star.

Mumbai is a city that thrives on extravagant spectacles and larger-than-life characters--but as Chopra is about to discover, even in the city of dreams, there is no guarantee of a happy ending.

Rising star and incorrigible playboy Vikram Verma has disappeared, leaving his latest film in jeopardy. Hired by Verma's formidable mother to find him, Inspector Chopra and his sidekick, baby elephant Ganesha, embark on a journey deep into the world's most flamboyant movie industry.

As they uncover feuding stars, failed investments and death threats, it seems that many people have a motive for wanting Verma out of the picture.

And yet, as Chopra has long suspected, in Bollywood the truth is often stranger than fiction ...

Author Biography

Vaseem Khan first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived in India to work as a consultant. It was the most unusual thing he'd ever encountered and served as the inspiration behind his series of crime novels.