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A Detective Under Fire
’BRIBERY IN MAXIMUM CRIMES SQUAD
Tapes Reveal Tip of Iceberg?’ Sunday Herald
Harriet Martens, named `the Hard Detective’ by the media because of her unrelenting opposition to every sort of evil-doing, has been secretly summoned to London to investigate corruption in the country’s most prestigious crime-fighting team, the elite Maximum Crimes Squad. And she suddenly finds herself under fire.
Not only is she opposed at every turn by the head of the Squad, the popular, macho cop known as the Boxer, but she is menaced by mysterious figures from its current target, the worldwide Colombian network making even more money from people smuggling than from drugs smuggling. Then, as she begins to get nearer to finding out who at the top of the Squad is in the enemy’s pay, she comes under fire from yet another elite - the press.
The Inspector of Constabulary who has brought Harriet down to London believes that she is enough of an elite figure herself to withstand all the fire. But is she?
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A Detective in Love
It was six-thirty in the morning when Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens took a phone call that would change her life...
For the call is to inform her that Britain’s number one tennis star and media darling, the wonderfully pretty Bubbles Xingara, has been murdered in the grounds of her big country house. Harriet is now in charge of a case that will have the world’s media - already massing for the start of Wimbledon – out in force.
But it is not the investigation that is about to explode Harriet’s life. Or the string of murder suspects - including Bubbles’ stepfather and coach Peter Renshaw, her assistant Fiona Diplock, or even the French gangster, Pierre le Fou, whom she had publicly humiliated.
No, it is the burly, young figure of Detective Inspector Anselm Brent.
For Harriet Martens – wire and mother, nicknamed the Hard Detective by the press and her colleagues – has fallen madly and passionately in love with a fellow officer…
Critical Acclaim for H.R.F. Keating
'Few, if any, contemporary writers are as entertaining as the remarkable H.R.F Keating.' Len Deighton
'Keating reveals, not for the first time, his criminal versatility in The Rich Detective… a delight' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Classic crime from a master of the genre' Nottingham Evening Post
'Masterly as ever' Times Literary Supplement
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Breaking and Entering
There, in the heart of his place of safety, in a room he was calling as his den, a room where no one was admitted without first knocking, not even his wife, Ajmani sahib was killed.'
All Bombay is buzzing with news of the murder of Anil Ajmani. It is certainly a baffling case, for the millionaire was found stabbed to death in his heavily guarded and tightly secure mansion. Every inspector in the Crime Branch hopes to be the one to nail the killer. And that includes Inspector Ganesh Ghote. Unfortunately, he is the only officer not assigned to the case.
Instead he has been given the less glorious task of tracking down the cat burglar, nicknamed Yeshwant, who has been scaling apartment blocks in the dead of night to steal valuable pieces of jewellery.
Aided - or perhaps hampered - by his old friend Axel Svensson, seeking Indian warmth from his troubles in winter-cold Sweden, Ghote fights to uncover Yeshwant's true identity.
And in doing so unexpectedly finds that he may be the one to solve the murder of Anil Ajmani after all …
'A delight' Observer
'As fresh and as entertaining as ever, an amazing 35 years since his first appearance' Daily Telegraph
'Inspector Ghote is one of the great characters of the contemporary mystery novel.' New York Times
More Praise for H.R.F.Keating and the Inspector Ghote Series
'H.R,E Keating has created in Ganesh Ghote an enchanting and engaging inspector.' P.D. James
'Mr Keating has a long-established winner in his sympathetic and lively hero.' The Times
'H.R.F Keating breathes new life into the classic detective story.' Reginald Hill
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The Hard Detective
'I'm hard, yes. Because I've got to be. I should be. But I'm hard in a good cause.'
Yet still those words prickled in her mind.
Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens has earned the nickname the 'hard detective' - but she's had to be unyielding to make it in a man's world. And, after all, it was this toughness that inspired her successful Stop the Rot campaign, that has so provoked local criminals.
But now two of her officers have died within hours of each other. Harriet comes to believe both have been murdered - and a disturbing idea follows. For the circumstances of each death echo words from the Book of Exodus: Life for Life, Eye for Eye…
Has a killer chosen this gruesome ritual to tell Harriet she has been pushing too hard?
And if so, can she prevent the six deaths that will surely complete the quotation? Beginning with Tooth for Tooth…
'Another first-class mystery from one of the doyens of British crime writing' Sunday Times
'One of his best… It really is a top-notch story' Birmingham Post
'Few who pick up this latest offering from a master will be disappointed by the superior fare on offer here' Crime Time
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Jack the Lady Killer
See Review by
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
The Punjab in India. 1935. The sub-continent under the Raj. Fresh from his English boarding school. Jack Steele is a new recruit to the Indian Imperial Police and soon begins to acquire the attitudes of old India hands towards the people under their rule. Only a few months into his posting, Jack has to conduct a murder investigation when one of the British community at his Station, the sexually rapacious widow Milly Marchbanks, is found strangled. To Jack's consternation, the only clue implicates a member of the Britons' Club. But which one? While Jack goes round in circles, his self-effacing India sergeant, Bulaki Ram, discreetly nudges him along the way he needs to go.
H.R.F. Keating is one of the best known of contemporary British crime novelists, especially for his long series of Inspector Ghote mysteries set in India. Despite its setting, Jack the Lady Killer is something completely different as well as completely unexpected. It is one of the rarest forms known to literature, a detective novel in verse, Keating developing his rhyme-crime in nearly 300 fourteen-line stanzas. During a writing career spanning forty years, Keating has won many honours for both fiction and non-fiction, most notably the awarded of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 1996 for a lifetime's achievement. Since 1985 he has been President of the Detection Club in succession to some of the greats of British crime fiction, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Julian Symons.
About The Author
H.R.F.Keating is one of Britain's most highly acclaimed crime novelists, born on the 31st Oct 1926. He is the creator of Inspector Ghote, of the Bombay C.I.D., hero of 21 crime novels, and is the author of eleven other crime novels, four mainstream novels, and of "Writing Crime Fiction" (A&C Black,1994), "Sherlock Holmes, the Man and His World" (Hudson 1979), and "Crime and Mystery: the 100 Best Books" (1987) together with numerous short stories. He was awarded the American George N. Dove Award in 1995. "The Perfect Murder" (1964 - made into a film by Merchant Ivory), the first book about Inspector Ghote, and "The Murder of the Maharajah" (1980) were both awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and in 1996 he was the recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger for a lifetime's achievement. He was the Chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1970-1971 and in 1985 was elected President of the Detection Club in succession to G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and Julian Symons (stepped down 2001). He is an Edgar Allan Poe special award winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is at present serving on its Council. Harry Keating is married to the actress and audio books reader Sheila Mitchell and also writes as Evelyn Hervey.
Latest News/Work in Progress:
He recently had a story The Fatal Step, featuring Miss Unwin, the governess-sleuth he has written of as Evelyn Hervey, in the second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology.
Latest book: A Detective in Love, a successor to The Hard Detective, (2001)
In preparation: The Dozy Northern Tart (also featuring Harriet Martens, the ‘Hard Detective’)
George N. Dove Award Received (U.S. plaque for the Serious Study of Mystery Fiction)
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
A Detective Under Fire
(Macmillan,
2002)
A Detective in Love
(Macmillan,
2001)
Pbk Nov 02
(Harriet Martens)
Breaking and Entering
(Macmillan,
2000)
The last Ghote story
Pan Pbk Nov 01
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Hard Detective
(Macmillan,
2000)
Pan Pbk Nov 00
(Harriet Martens)
Jack the Lady Killer
(Flambard Press Pbk,
1999)
Bribery, Corruption Also
(Macmillan,
1999)
Pan Pbk Jan 00
(Ganesh Ghote)
In Kensington Gardens once…
Short Stories
(Flambard Press Pbk,
1997)
The Soft Detective
(Macmillan,
1997)
Pan Pbk Jan 99
(Phil Benholme)
Asking Questions
(Macmillan,
1996)
Pan Pbk 1997
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Bad Detective
(Macmillan,
1996)
The Inspector Ghote Mysteries
(Pan,
1996)
Pan Pbk 1996
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Good Detective
(Macmillan,
1995)
(Ned French)
Doing Wrong
(Macmillan,
1994)
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Rich Detective
(Macmillan,
1993)
Cheating Death
(Hutchinson,
1992)
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Iciest Sin
(Century Hutchinson,
1990)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote, His Life and Crimes
Short Stories
(Century Hutchinson,
1989)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Dead on Time
(Hutchinson,
1988)
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Body in the Billiard Room
(Century Hutchinson,
1987)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Under a Monsoon Cloud
(Century Hutchinson,
1986)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Mrs Craggs: Crimes Cleaned Up
Short Stories
(Buchan & Enright,
1985)
The Sheriff of Bombay
(Collins Crime Club,
1984)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Go West, Inspector Ghote
(Collins Crime Club,
1981)
(Ganesh Ghote)
The Murder of the Maharajah
(Collins Crime Club,
1980)
Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award (Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Draws a Line
(Collins Crime Club,
1979)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote
(Collins Crime Club,
1976)
(Ganesh Ghote)
A Remarkable Case of Burglary
(Collins Crime Club,
1975)
Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote
(Collins Crime Club,
1974)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart
(Collins Crime Club,
1972)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Goes by Train
(Collins Crime Club,
1971)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg
(Collins Crime Club,
1970)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker
(Collins Crime Club,
1969)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock
(Collins Crime Club,
1968)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes
(Collins Crime Club,
1967)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade
(Collins Crime Club,
1966)
(Ganesh Ghote)
Is Skin-Deep, Is Fatal
(Collins Crime Club,
1965)
The Perfect Murder
(Collins Crime Club,
1964)
The first Inspector Ghote novel & Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award
Pbk 1998
(Ganesh Ghote)
Death of a Fat God
(Collins Crime Club,
1963)
The Dog It Was That Died
(Gollancz,
1962)
A Rush on the Ultimate
(Gollancz,
1961)
Zen There Was Murder
(Gollancz,
1960)
Death and the Visiting Firemen
(Gollancz,
1959)
A Detective Under Fire
by H.R.F. Keating
