jim corbett

After seeking voluntary retirement from the state police service, Lionel Carmichael returns to his family home in the quaint hill station of Debrakot. He hopes to spend a quiet life there with a few quirky neighbours for company. However, that is not to be. There is a double murder at Shambala Villa or “Shambles”, as it has come to be known due to its dilapidated condition, and his former colleague SHO Thapliyal needs his help. Carmichael visits Shambles and finds Reuben Sabharwal, a self-styled godman, lying in a pool…

Famed British hunter, tracker and naturalist, who also penned a number of successful books, Jim Corbett was born on July 25, 1875. A high ranking colonel in the British Indian Army, he was frequently called upon by the then Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon divisions and many of his books, apart from fiction, are based on his adventures hunting the ferocious felines in the Indian…