Death to the Landlords

By Ellis Peters

No case is too strange or too baffling for the policeman George Felse and his son, Dominic. Over 13 instalments and two decades, the Felse Investigations will take them from their home on the Welsh Borders to the southernmost tip of India.

Landlords are never popular, and there is little mourning when the greedy, ruthless Mahendralal Bakhle is blown up on his boat on the beautiful Periyar Lake. Suspicion falls on the boat-boy who died with him, but Dominic Felse, one of a party of young tourists visiting the landlord's game reserve, is not convinced of the boy's guilt. And when the party move on to their next destination, the terror pursues them all the way to the southernmost tip of India.

The police blame local terrorists targeting wealthy landlords, but what would that have to do with a group of innocent tourists? To get to the bottom of this trail of violence, Dominic Felse must unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: Aug 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781784972899

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (the pen name of Edith Pargeter, 1913–1995) is a writer beloved of millions of readers worldwide and has been widely adapted for radio and television, including her Brother Cadfael crime novels, which were made into a series starring Derek Jacobi. She has been the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger, Edgar Award for Best Novel, Agatha Award for Best Novel, and was awarded an OBE for her services to literature in 1994.

Reviews for Death to the Landlords

[gypsysmom_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This twentieth century mystery is set in India and involves the murder of a several landlords. Dominic Felse, son of an English detective, must solve the murders.

[jjmcgaffey · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I don't really like this one, because I remember the conclusion and it's so pitiful and nasty that it flavors everything else. I'd actually forgotten the exciting bit at the end, and who was behind the whole thing, which was much better than what I did remember. So it gets three-and-a-half stars, because I spent the whole first half of the book wincing and looking for foreshadowing (which is there, but not really visible unless you know what's going on behind the scenes. Not to me, anyway). Probably my least favorite of the Dominic Felse books, which means it's only good.

[lucylocket_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a Dominic Felse mystery set in India in the 1950's. Dominic is the son of an English policeman who appears in her earlier books. In this book he is travelling in India and gets involved in a terrorist plot.

[mendoza_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The book is about terrorist plots and bombings and is set in 1960's India. The book is fast paced and the surprise ending was excellent. I did miss Tossa though in this.