Dipy Singh. Private detective

by Ketan Joshi

Deepinder (Dipy) Singh Gehlot is a private detective in Mumbai who handles the strangest cases, and discusses them with me over our favourite food - tandoori chicken and beer.
The first time we met, he told me about his encountering a vampire in a blood bank. After that we worked together - (well, he worked, but we were together...at times) on many more interesting cases - tantric curses, hypnotic godmen, uncatchable thieves etc.
Not a Sherlock, but rather a Sher-da-baccha! -

109 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 15, 2011

About the author

Ketan Joshi is the author of the ‘Three Men on Motorcycles’ series - a humorous travel-adventure series about him and his friends - the ‘Amigos’- riding their Royal Enfield motorcycles across far-flung parts of India - Ladakh, Spiti, Coorg, Kishtawar, Killar, Saurashtra, Rajasthan, etc.

Before he got into motorcycle touring, he was a backpacker and trekker- having travelled all across India and nearby countries with his Lonely Planet. He writes about his early backpacking travels in a different series - ‘One man goes backpacking’.

Ketan is an MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and worked as a Sales and Marketing professional for over 20 years, before jumping ship to become a full time traveller and writer.

Apart from travel books, Ketan has written 2 books of detective fiction featuring the eponymous detective ‘Dipy Singh’ , one book of short stories - ‘Bombay Thrillers’ - and one textbook on Marketing.

Ketan’s writing has been praised for being humorous, easy to read, yet extremely informative and practical - and having a very unique Indian style.


Ketan lives and works in Mumbai, India.