Snakes Without Ladders is a crime fiction tinged with history. The story encompasses three cities on three continents – New York, London and Boma in Congo. The time span is over a hundred years. A gruesome murder of an old and loveable widow takes place in New York. What can be the motive? The police soon capture the murderer and he is now on death-row. Orlando Chatterji, a writer and a distant relative of the widow, wants to find out the reason for this ...