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What exactly is the perfect murder? There is plenty of scope to find out in this tenth Rupa anthology compiled by Ruskin Bond. Stories featuring dangerous men and women who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what they want, comprise this anthology which brings together the cream of crime fiction. About the Author One of India’s finest and most popular storytellers, Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems. These include The Room on the Roof (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), A Flight of Pigeons, Time Stops at Shamli, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (winner of the Sahitya Academy Award), Rain in the Mountains, Roads to Mussoorie, and A Little Night Music. He has also, over the years, expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies.He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.