The Book Hunters of Katpadi A Bibliomystery

The Book Hunters of Katpadi A Bibliomystery by Pradeep Sebastian, Edition 2017Neelambari Adigal and her young associate, Kayal, together run Biblio, a one of a Kind store of rare books in Chennai, specializing in modern Indian first editions. The lives of these passionate book women revolve around curious browsers, eccentric book collectors, private press printers and the occasional thrill of unexpected discoveries of the antiquarian kind. On a book collecting trip to Ooty, Kayal stumbles upon an incendiary manuscript, long thought to be a myth, purportedly authored by explorer and translator Sir Richard Francis Burton. Almost simultaneously, a cache of priceless editions that look like they could be from the 300 year old library of one of the greatest book collectors the world has ever known, turns up at the bookshop. When it falls upon the two women to authenticate their finds, Neela and Kayal find, quite suddenly, that their lives are more full of bibliographic intrigue than they could ever have imagined. India