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    Jul 21, 2021 5 minutes
    REVIEWS ANNABEL LAWSON

    THE BOMBAY PRINCE

    Sujata Massey, Allen & Unwin, $29.99

    Critics have compared Perveen Mistry, the Parsi detective, to Phryne Fisher. Both practise in the 1920s, Phryne in Melbourne, Perveen in what was then Bombay. The similarities end there. Phryne is louche and brazen, Perveen must set an example of decorum. She’s not only India’s first female lawyer but Oxford University’s, too. (This is based on truth: the first woman Oxford admitted to a law degree was Indian.)

    The Prince who was to become Edward VIII is visiting India. Half the population want him to give up the looming emperorship and let Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah rule without British interference. The other half are there to wave and cheer. The murder of a promising graduate from Bombay’s poshest school for girls brings Perveen into

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