The Watermark Files, Book 4
The Devpur Deed
The prince died on a Tuesday. His signature is dated Friday.
Meera Joshi flies from Mumbai to Delhi with a parcel she has not let out of her hands since she pried it from a wall safe in her family's old house in Girgaon. Inside is the 1971 trust deed of Devpur, a small princely state on the Konkan coast that was merged in 1948. The deed signs away the last of the royal family's money. It is signed by the prince himself, three days after his death.
Under her cold light, Ira Sahni finds three broken letter stems in the typeface, paper from the right mill but the wrong year, and a revenue stamp that tells a story the signature cannot.
Then Meera's uncle, who kept the only duplicate, vanishes with a tin trunk and ten lakh rupees in cash, and the one page that could settle it all has been cut out of its binding. Ira follows the ink through monsoon Mumbai, from the treasury stacks in Fort to a hill club on the Western Ghats and a vault that has stayed shut for fifty years.
Revenue stampsTypeface damagePaper mill dating
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Can I read The Devpur Deed on its own?
Yes. The Devpur Deed is Book 4 of The Watermark Files and is a complete case with its own ending. Reading in order adds the background of Ira and Kabir's earlier cases.
Where is The Devpur Deed set?
Mostly in Delhi, Mumbai and the Western Ghats, India.
Who wrote The Devpur Deed?
Anchit Tandon, author of The Watermark Files series.