Forgotten Books: A Murder Staged: Anthony Gilbert’s The Musical Comedy Crime

I experienced a sense of deja vu while reading Anthony Gilbert's The Musical Comedy Crime. A man is murdered and Inspector Field investigates. He zooms in on one suspect and despite misgivings arrests him. Then Scott Egerton, the Liberal politician- detective of Gilbert's early novels (before the advent of her most masterly creation, Arthur Crook) …

They Too Fought: Manini Chatterjee’s Do and Die

Sitting in his solitary cell, waiting for the day when the noose would be put round his neck, Indian Revolutionary, Sukhdev wrote an open letter to Gandhi, questioning him about the fate of his fellow-revolutionaries who - unlike those in the Congress -  had not been released under the Gandhi-Irwin pact:More than half a dozen conspiracy …