When Ugrasen, the domineering patriarch of a family, drops dead at No. 22 Sainik Farms, everybody in the household is horrified and confused. While his three sons and wife reel under the shock, his niece Anjali, though only fourteen years old, knows something is amiss. By morning, the word suicide is being mumbled behind closed doors. A missing bag of rubies hints otherwise. And then there is the outsider , Jasleen. Anjali sets out to unravel the truth. Knocking on private investigator Ganapati Iyer s door is her first smart move. The needle of suspicion falls on every character that was part of the Ugrasen circle each person has a motive, but also the perfect alibi. It s now up to the inimitable Ganapati and his north Indian namesake, Vinayak, to get to the bottom of the bizarrely perpetrated murder. The collaboration between the two is an odd and interesting one, with Vinayak perpetually wanting to upgrade Ganapati s success with the ladies and the gifted south Indian quoting couplets from the Tirukural for Vinayak s benefit. The real question is: Will this improbable duo succeed in exposing the murderer who seems to elude all ...