Bombay ice

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The biggest single factor in the prevention of cholera in the Third World was the introduction of carbonated drinks, a benefit offset by the introduction of cheap freezers, which preserved bacteria-ridden local water in the form of ice. Bombay News, 1994.

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Rosalind Bengal is a radio journalist and producer for true-crime TV. After years in London, she still wakes with the cinnamon taste of cassia leaves in her mouth, a dream from her childhood in India when her father taught her about meteorology and her mother about alchemy. Then a letter comes from her sister, now married to a famous Bombay film director: "People tell me he murdered his first wife." Despite her fear of being drawn back into the murky patterns of her family past, Roz returns to India. In Bombay, where the monsoon season is imminent, the two sisters' lives are threatened by the repercussions from a brutal murder of a transvestite with links to "Bollywood." Roz soon realizes that her best defense weapon is not a gun but her knowledge of chemistry and Shakespeare, of storm warnings and gene patterns.

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Other Editions

• Bombay ice: a novelFarrar, Straus and Giroux1998-01-01
• Bombay IceOrion Publishing Group, Limited1998-01-01
• Bombay IcePaperbackOrion Publishing Group, Limited1998-03-16
• Bombay IceAudio CassetteSoundelux Audio Publishing1998-06-01
• Bombay IceAudio CassetteBlackstone Audiobooks1998-12-01
• Bombay iceOrion1999-01-01