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Tarquin Hall Books in Order

Tarquin Hall has written 11 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is Spectrum Guide to Namibia (1994) and the newest is The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1994–2025
Pages on record
2,142 in 7 of 11 books
Reading time
36–54 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,142 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Tarquin Hall, born in London in 1969, is an English writer and journalist who has lived in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey. Hall's fiction is the Vish Puri series, following a private investigator through murder cases in India, from The Case of the Missing Servant (2009) to The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck (2025). Non-fiction came first: a Spectrum Guide to Namibia (1994), the memoir Mercenaries, Missionaries and Misfits (1996), To The Elephant Graveyard (2000) and Salaam Brick Lane (2007). Eleven titles are catalogued in all.

How many Tarquin Hall books are there?

Tarquin Hall has 11 books, released between 1994 and 2025. 7 of them belong to the Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator series.

Tarquin Hall Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Tarquin Hall books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Spectrum Guide to Namibia by Tarquin Hall (1994)
  2. Cover of To The Elephant Graveyard: A True Story of the Hunt for a Man-Killing Indian Elephant by Tarquin Hall (2000)
  3. Cover of Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End by Tarquin Hall (2007)
  4. Cover of The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall, book 1 of the Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator series (2009)
  5. Cover of The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall, book 2 of the Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator series
  6. Cover of The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall, book 4 of the Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator series (2013)
  7. Cover of The Case of the Reincarnated Client by Tarquin Hall, book 6 of the Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator series
  1. 1
    Spectrum Guide to Namibia1994 · 364 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994364
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  2. 2
    Mercenaries, Missionaries and Misfits: Adventures of an Under-Age Journalist1996 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996312
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  3. 3
    To The Elephant Graveyard: A True Story of the Hunt for a Man-Killing Indian Elephant2000 · 280 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000280
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  4. 4
    Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End2007 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007288
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  5. 5
    The Case of the Missing ServantVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #12009 · 338 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009338
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  6. 6
    The Case of the Man Who Died LaughingVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #22009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  7. 7
    The Case of the Deadly Butter ChickenVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #32012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  8. 8
    The Case of the Love CommandosVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #42013 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013320
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  9. 9
    The Delhi Detective's HandbookVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #52017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017–
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  10. 10
    The Case of the Reincarnated ClientVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #62019 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019240
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  11. 11
    The Case of the Elusive Bombay DuckVish Puri: Most Private Investigator #72025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Tarquin Hall books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator in order

7 books
  1. 1. The Case of the Missing Servant
  2. 2. The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
  3. 3. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken
  4. 4. The Case of the Love Commandos
  5. 5. The Delhi Detective's Handbook
  6. 6. The Case of the Reincarnated Client
  7. 7. The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck

Standalone books

4 books

4 Tarquin Hall titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Tarquin Hall books in order?

You only need to read Tarquin Hall books in order within the Vish Puri: Most Private Investigator series, which holds 7 of the 11 Tarquin Hall books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Tarquin Hall

Start with Spectrum Guide to Namibia (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Tarquin Hall book?

The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck (2025) is the newest Tarquin Hall book released so far.

Is there a new Tarquin Hall book coming?

No next Tarquin Hall book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Tarquin Hall at a glance

Still publishing
Tarquin Hall published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Tarquin Hall books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,142 pages across the 7 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Tarquin Hall books, 4 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Tarquin Hall books are about

6 of the 11 Tarquin Hall books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: india is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.