The Palace Tiger

Barbara Cleverly has written a series of detective novels set in the 1920's, several of India, some of Britain and wherever nearby her gentleman or lady detective-protagonists roam. She's excellent of her genre. She provides a top-notch plot with several plausible alternative villains, well-drawn ec......more

Barbara Cleverly's Joe Sandilands series is about a British detective and former army man working in India during the time of the Raj. I found the first three of the series to be unique and colorful, portraying the evocative, fragrant era of 1920s India. As I've found with other series (such as thos......more

second of her books that I have now read - realised in once she started describing the tiger hunt and I thought "I've read this scene before......." (In "Ragtime in Simla"). Not exactly the same, and I suppose that many of the tiger hunts in upper class Raj era India were all much the same, so poor......more

Sandilands was teamed~up with Edgar Troop, an adventurer whom the reader met in Ragtime in Simla... and although one of spy~master Jardine's agents, Joe still had ambivalent trust issues towards him. Their destination was the fiefdom of Ranipur and would be under the 'regency' of a man named Claude......more

3.5 stars. Although Joe is on leave, Sir George "suggests" he should accompany Edgar Troop to Ranipur for an upcoming tiger hunt. The Maharaja of Ranipur is ill (an dying), his eldest son recently died in somewhat suspicious circumstances, and Sir George wants a British presence on hand, despite the......more