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Tarquin Hall

Sherlock Goes to Bollywood

By Jennifer Proffitt

April 29, 2012

Sherlock has seen a few different incarnations lately. I’m mostly thinking about the modernization with the wonderful Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and the action hero we see in Robert Downey Jr.’s Holmes and soon Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu will enter the Sherlock universe. But there’s one more new Sherlock that will join the…

Culture in Translation: Like That, Talk We Don’t

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

June 5, 2011

Still wrapped in my dilemma over whether Indians really speak as they do in Tarquin Hall’s Vish Puri novels (The Case of the Missing Servant and The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing), I asked some Indian friends if, as I suspected, the peculiar syntax of dialog such as “Don’t do tension, sir,” was…

Cover of The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall

Africa, India, and Alexander the Great

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

May 7, 2011

I like my cozies atmospheric and literate, and right now the prolific Alexander McCall Smith, who writes the “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” books along with other series, is my benchmark cozy author. I’m looking for a backup.  The Man Who Died Laughing, is only Tarquin Hall’s second Vish Puri novel, and was selected by the…

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