"Star of India" is the third in the series of crime thrillers involving India's own Sherlock, Col Pratap Swaraj. It is an adventure mystery about a priceless diamond whose discovery and theft turns into a rip roaring thriller. Temple priest Devidas and his ten year old son Ratan discover a bottle from the sea with a precious jewel inside it. But the boy soon finds his father and the diamond both missing. The police register a case of burglary and kidnapping. What is the significance of the diamond? Who has stolen it and why? Where have they taken his father? The narrative moves at a dizzy pace through many plot twists and turns until the symbolic mystery is solved by the wily Col. Pratap Swaraj with the guile of Sherlock himself as "Star of India" enlightens the way.