What was Dorothy bell doing in the Pettah in the middle of the night ? who drove that knife so precisely through her heart? When the body of a young English girl is found in one of the oldest and least attractive sections of Colombo, these are only some of the questions that pop into CV’s mind. And when, to his surprise, her father comes and offers him the job of finding the murderer, CV, a computer whiz on leave from the US, finds himself an unlikely ...