The Watermark Files, Book 2
The Stamp Vendor
Three sheets of stamp paper. One stolen wharf. A date somebody scraped away.
The port is paying one hundred and eighty crore rupees for Kurian Wharf, two acres of old pepper godowns on the Mattancherry waterfront in Kochi. The powerful Kurian family claims it with a gift deed from 1987. A small trust for the families of the porters who carried pepper there for fifty years claims it with the old merchant's will.
Ira Sahni is called in. The watermark looks too young. The signature crawls where it should run. And the one register that could settle it all burned in a registry fire in 1996.
With Kabir Anand at her side, Ira goes looking for the one man who never made a mistake: an eighty-four-year-old stamp vendor who sat under a rain tree for forty-four years and wrote down every sheet he ever sold. His books are gone. Somebody else is looking for them too.
Stamp paper and vendor registersSignature tremorScraped dates
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Can I read The Stamp Vendor on its own?
Yes. The Stamp Vendor is Book 2 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 Stamp Vendor set?
Mostly in Kochi, India.
Who wrote The Stamp Vendor?
Anchit Tandon, author of The Watermark Files series.
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