The Watermark Files, Book 3
The Second Inventory
Two lists of one temple treasure room. One of them is lying. The typewriter remembers which.
In Varanasi, a High Court commission opens the treasure room of an old Shiva temple for the first time in fifty years. Every piece on the official 1973 list is there, all 212 of them. Then a schoolteacher hands over an envelope her father posted to himself in 1985 and never opened. Inside is a carbon copy of the same inventory. It lists 257 pieces.
Forty-five treasures are missing, and one of them is about to be sold at a Delhi auction as a family heirloom. Ira Sahni must decide which list is true. The answer is hidden in a typewriter's crooked letters, an old ribbon in a basement nobody has cleared since the 1980s, and a goldsmith's order book.
Holi is coming. Someone steals the one machine that can prove the date. And on the carbon, under a fold and a thumbprint, is a signature Ira has seen before.
Typewriter defectsCarbon copies and ribbonsAuction provenance
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Can I read The Second Inventory on its own?
Yes. The Second Inventory is Book 3 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 Second Inventory set?
Mostly in Varanasi and Delhi, India.
Who wrote The Second Inventory?
Anchit Tandon, author of The Watermark Files series.
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