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The narrative begins in a quiet English village when drawn blinds and a sudden death at Littlecote stir gossip among two spinster sisters, and it follows how events and investigations send several characters to Burma. There the story explores colonial social life, cross-cultural encounters, theater and commerce, and the darker urban underworld, including a cocaine den and a violent antagonist, while mysteries, suspicion, and a courtroom sentence escalate the stakes. Personal loyalties are tested as hidden motives and relationships are uncovered, leading to confrontations and a final unravelling that resolves the central enigmas and the fates of those involved.

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Title: The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma

Author: B. M. Croker

Release date: April 23, 2006 [eBook #18239]
Most recently updated: December 17, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Al Haines

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The Road to Mandalay

A Tale of Burma

by B. M. Croker

Cassell and Company, Ltd
London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne
First published October 1917.
Reprinted December 1917, March and May 1918
Popular Edition 1919.