Games at Twilight Jonathon King Lieutenant-Commander David Howard's orders were

Lieutenant-Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear

Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband

Morse was beset by a nagging feeling

in a blend of history and mystery

A few could still recall the murderer's suicide

Games at Twilight Jonathon King Lieutenant-Commander David Howard's orders wereSet in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life evoking the colour, sounds and white hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian