Second novel and some advices

The detective would be reading a ‘detective’ novel when he is rudely interrupted by his nephew’s friend. He brings the news that detective’s nephew is hit by a bullet while traveling in the night.

The nephew was giving drop to a girl who was running away from home. She has ditched her rich husband, stolen some diamonds  and planning to run away with her lover. While going on the bike with detective’s nephew she gets hit by the bullet, so does the nephew.

As luck would have it, the bullet would have done very little damage to the nephew. Next day, he comes back. So, the detective, his nephew and nephew’s friend start the detection.

They would have seen a news that the wife of a rich man is dead due to heart attack. In fact, it was an obituary column which has seen by the nephew.

The nephew swears that the girl whom he dropped the previous night is same as the girl who is now claimed to have been dead due to a cardiac failure.

The trio suspects foul play and start detection.

The detection takes them to various places. They come to know that the girl’s mother who is jailed for wrong reasons has been killed by a drunken police inspector. The police inspector would be jailed.

The father is forced to identify the girl who is dead of heart attack as his own daughter and she is buried.

There is this secretary of the rich widower whom the trio suspects as the culprit.

They try all methods to know what is happening. By the time the trio tracks down the secretary, they find that he has been kidnapped by a gang.

Now they pursue the chase. The chase takes them to the coffee estates of Kodagu.

There are so many mysterious elements. There are two girls working in the rich man’s house. The trio suspects that one of them must have been killed instead of the girl who ran away. There is one more twist. The girl the trio had believed dead comes out alive and the girl whom the trio thought is alive is found to be dead.

The killers, kidnappers are nabbed at last and the story ends with a happy note.

There is one thing which I want to tell. My aunt, Ashwini, a famous author in Kannada read the serialization in Kannada Prabha.

On the last day of the serial’s publication, she promptly called me and said, ‘the story seems flat because of its end. Hope you ensure that there is a logical, but satisfying ending when you bring the serial as a book’.

Keeping this in mind, I added a scene where there is lover’s reunion.

The story, I felt, felt better now. After all, an experienced author’s idea was that!!!