The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
A story about family love, about memory's ability to keep the truth alive, and about the danger of denying memory. At the same time extensive and intimate, comic and tragic, it is a kaleidoscopic, deeply emotional saga about home and the heart.
Klein is a typical Ellroy protagonist, a police lieutenant, a law graduate, a war veteran, and an underworld mercenary. A series of seemingly unrelated crimes and assignments will put his stamina and ingenuity to the ultimate test.