About the book: 2022 / The second novel in the detective series about Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Indestructible, investigating crimes in Calcutta at the beginning of the 20th century. India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee, nicknamed the Indestructible, will have to investigate the murder of the Maharaja's son. Sam Wyndham makes an official visit to the kingdom of Sambalpur, where diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun are located. When the Maharaja's eldest son and heir is murdered, Wyndham realizes that the tiny kingdom is torn by conflict. The slain Prince Adir was unpopular among religious groups, while his brother - now first in line to the throne - seems an incompetent frivolous dandy. Trying to unravel the mystery of the prince's death, Wyndham and Sergeant Indestructible find themselves in a real web that entangles the Maharaja's possessions. the Maharaja's wives, his concubines, eunuchs, their guards, ministers, British officials - somewhere among them a murderer is hiding, and the detectives must find him before he begins the hunt for them..