Lord Lister No. 0029: Het Indische raadsel

The narrative opens with a ceremonial reception in Portsmouth for an Indian maharajah, during which a young nobleman serving as royal escort learns that his father lies dying. At the bedside he reads a will that bequeaths his fortune but demands he renounce his family's ancestral claim in India and never travel there, because a cryptic relic called Akasa supposedly brought successive heirs death and madness. The plot centers on the aftermath of this injunction, tracing inherited secrets, colonial mysteries, and the obsessive lure of a lost Indian treasure, and sets up an investigation into a two-century-old enigma linking fortune, fate, and family legacy.