It is the beginning of Inspector Ghote's career with the Bombay Police and he has the bad luck to be saddled with solving the 'Perfect Murder' - and there isn't even a corpse! He has to contend with the cunning tycoon, Lala Varde, and the mysterious theft of one rupee from the desk of the Minister of Police Affairs and the Arts No wonder the sweating Inspector feels as if every one of India's 400 million people is looking at him and challenging him to solve the mystery