Bad Day at the Vulture Club is the fifth installment in the Baby Ganesh Agency series and while I didn't think it was possible, this series has only gotten better with each one. When the body of Cyrus Zorabian, a prominent philanthropist and industrialist within the Parsee community is found in the Tower of Silence, where the Parsees lay out their dead to be consumed by vultures, the police dismiss it as a random killing, perhaps a robbery gone awry. Perizaad, his daughter, is not so sure. Her father was respected and largely beloved within Mumbai but perhaps, he's not the upstanding citizen that everyone believed him to be. She enlists the services of Inspector Chopra and everyone's favorite sidekick, Ganesh, a baby elephant, to find the person responsible. The detective has a full caseload but the more he learns about Cyrus and the bungled police investigation, the more intrigued he gets until he has no choice but to say yes.In addition to the intricate murder plot, the author added a subplot focusing on the real-life Take the Poo to the Loo campaign from UNICEF that took place in India in 2014. India has had a well-known defection problem with so many people going in the streets of the country. The subplot could have dragged the whole story down but I didn't feel that to be the case since it was integrated so seamlessly. There was a second, weaker, subplot focusing on Ganesh's emotions, however, that I felt was either very quickly resolved as an after-thought or dropped.The novel has some heavy subject matter, you know, besides the murder, but the writer added plenty of levity to elicit a few chuckles. For instance, after hitting a vulture while on sacred ground, Detective Chopra ends up taking it home with him so it can recuperate at the restaurant, much to the chagrin of his wife and mother-in-law. I snorted at a few of these scenes.The writer did an excellent job of weaving all of these threads in and while the novel lagged toward the end, I thought it was because certain things simply became repetitive. The writer kept circling back to a particular character to set him up as the culprit and I never got the sense that said character would turn out to be the villain. That said, the novel maintained a brisk pace up until those last few chapters.One of the many good things about this series is that the novels can be read as standalones so if this particular one interests you, you can even begin with it.