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Delhi Missing Case: The 2:17 Shadow
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 25 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Delhi Missing Case: The 2:17 Shadow
Book One of The 2:17 Files
by Mayank Agnihotri
Every night at 2:17 AM, a child disappears in Delhi.
No screams.
No forced entry.
No evidence-except neatly placed shoes and CCTV footage that glitches at the exact same second.
Inspector Aarav Malhotra believes in patterns, not superstition. But when multiple children vanish across the city at precisely 2:17 AM, he realizes this is no ordinary kidnapping case. As fear spreads and the media whispers about a 2:17 curse, Aarav uncovers something far more disturbing than a criminal network.
An abandoned shelter near the Yamuna.
Classified government files labeled Project Lost Innocence.
Children who were never reported missing-because no one ever looked for them.
As clocks across Delhi begin stopping at 2:17 and children hear their names called in the dark, the investigation spirals into a terrifying truth: the city itself remembers what was erased.
Some shadows are not cast by light.
Some are built from forgotten names.
Blending urban horror with psychological suspense and social commentary, Delhi Missing Case: The 2:17 Shadow is a chilling slow-burn thriller about memory, guilt, and the cost of silence.
Because some cities don't kill their children.
They keep them.
And once you hear the whisper at 2:17 AM...
it never really ends.
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