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With over 20 titles in this charming detective series, The Perfect Murder introduces Bombay CID’s most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction.
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Severn House, UK & US
Audible UK
Unionverlag, Germany
Elliot-LIT Edizioni, Italy
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Winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement
Winner of two CWA Gold Daggers
Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award
Film/TV rights sold to Endemol Shine India
Endorsements
“May the redoubtable Ghote go on forever.” - Len Deighton
“Utterly loveable...Ghote is one of the great creations of detective fiction.” - Alexander McCall Smith
“It’s the best.” - P D James
Reviews
“The most endearing of detectives…I don’t see how anyone could resist.” - Daily Telegraph
“Keating has a long-established winner in his sympathetic and lively hero.” - The Times
“'Delightful and convincing…Masterpieces of imagination” - Time
“One of the great characters of the contemporary mystery novel.” - New York Times
Author Biography
H. R. F. Keating is the author of twenty-four Inspector Ghote titles including a short story collection with a biography of the Inspector, The Life & Times of Inspector Ghote. He also wrote two further Indian books set in the time of the Raj – including one in verse, Jack the Ladykiller, and a series of seven novels about an English detective, Harriet Martens, as well as five mainstream novels too. There are many non-series, stand-alone crime books and two further short story collections, In Kensington Gardens Once and Mrs Craggs, Crimes Cleaned Up. He also found time to edit and write eight non-fiction books and was the crime critic for ‘The Times’ for fifteen years. In his lifetime, he served as President of the Detection Club and was both Chairman of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers Association. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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