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H.R.F. Keating
H.R.F. Keating
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Audio Tape ISIS (2001)
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A new novel in the award winning Inspector Ghote series
All Bombay is buzzing with the murder of a millionaire found stabbed to death in his tightly secure mansion. Every inspector in the branch hopes to be the one to nail the killer, including Inspector Ganesh Ghote. Unfortunately, he is the only officer not assigned to the case . . .
H. R. F. Keating was the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. He has served as Chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association and the Society of Authors, and in 1987 was elected President of the Detection Club.
He has written numerous novels as well as non-fiction, but is most famous for the Inspector Ghote series, the first of which, The Perfect Murder, was made into a film and won a CWA Gold Dagger Award, as did The Murder of the Maharajah.
In 1996 H. R. F. Keating was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. He is married to the actress Sheila Mitchell and lives in London.
Unabridged: 6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 mins
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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)

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    Bibliography
    N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Breaking and Entering (ISIS, 2001) (Ganesh Ghote)

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