C.I.D.

Chullunder Ghose #4

by Talbot Mundy

Criminal Investigation Department agent Chullunder Ghose sniffs out an elaborate plot to depose the local ruler – a plot that leads him to infiltrate a secret Hindu cult that illegally worships Kali – with human sacrifice.

Chullunder Ghose, a native confidence man and catalyst for bringing together the various lit fuses that run at large in this story. Upon his first appearance, the reader may dismiss him as mere humorous foil, as he is introduced by his rollicking verbal slapstick that leaves verbal vocabularist par excellance Leo Gorcey rolling in the dust. Or, as Leo might say it, “roiling in the dusk.” That Ghose ends up playing the court jester — the wise man in the guise of the idiot — is Mundy's own literary trick.

280 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1932

About the author

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.