


As Maisie learns, Usha was different from the hostel’s other lodgers. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.īefore her death, Usha was staying at the Ayah’s Hostel, a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out, penniless and far from home once their services were no longer needed.

Some two months after an Indian woman, Usha Pramal, is found murdered in the brackish water of a south-London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death.
