This is Nagendra’s first mystery, set in Bangalore in 1921. It is set in South India, not Bombay or Calcutta, which makes it unique in my experience.
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
Book Review: “Swami On Rye – Max in India” by Maira Kalman – 1995, received together along with “Cassandra Darke”...