The Raj Quartet

This sequence of four novels - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of the Spoils - is set in British India between the Quit India unrest of 1942 and independence and partition in 1947. Recurring figures include the Indian Hari Kumar, the English Daphne Manners, and the policeman Ronald Merrick, whose encounter in Mayapore ramifies through later volumes among soldiers, missionaries, and civil servants. The books examine race, a rape allegation, and the dismantling of the Raj. The work is a linked fictional chronicle of the last years of British rule, not a single detective story and not a documentary history.

Bound in dark mottled blue cloth. Bound in mottled dark grey cloth. Bound in mottled dark red cloth. Bound in mottled dark green cloth 7 illustrations in each volume. Bound in image blocked cloth. Dark yellow endleaves. Orange-brown four-volume slipcase with gilt title.