Introducing Bombay CID's most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of
the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction,
H.R.F. Keating's The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote
Mystery includes a preface by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, in Penguin Modern Classics. One
crime that couldn't have happened, one that probably hasn't.
Nothing's ever easy for Inspector Ghote. In the house of Lala
Varde, a vast man of even vaster influence, an attack has taken
place. Varde's secretary, Mr Perfect, has been struck on his
invaluable business head. And try as Inspector Ghote might to
remain conscientious and methodical, his investigation is beset on
all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. And then there's
another urgent case to be dealt with: the impossible theft of a
single rupee . . . H. R. F. Keating (1926-2011) was born at St
Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early
to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of
service in the army, which he describes as 'totally
undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he
became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books
reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel about
Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the
Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award. His
other works in Penguin Modern Classics include Inspector Ghote
Breaks an Egg, Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart, and Under a
Monsoon Cloud: An Inspector Ghote Mystery. If you enjoyed The
Perfect Murder, you might like Keating's Inspector Ghote Breaks an
Egg, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'May the
redoubtable Ghote go on for ever' Len Deighton 'Beautiful little
classics' Alexander McCall Smith
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