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Harry Keating has just sent to Macmillan his newest Inspector Ghote story, entitled Breaking and Entering. It will probably come out early in 2001. It may be the last Ghote book. It was half-intended to be such, and features after 30 years or more Axel Svensson, the Swede visiting Bombay who helped by his presence in the first Ghote,The Perfect Murder, in 1964 to explain Indian life to readers in the West. A few years ago my agent suggested to me that perhaps Ghote had had his day. I resisted his murderous attempts for some time, but in the end thought that Mumbai, as Bombay has recently become, was somehow too strange to me. So I felt I could now bring Ghote's long story to an end. Only for Michael Sissons, my agent, to say when he had read the typescript of Breaking and Entering that he was sorry if the saga was coming to an end. So perhaps after all it ain't.
In the meanwhile I am toying, as the century comes to its end, with giving another outing to Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens, protagonist of The Hard Detective (to be published in January, 2000).
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. |
Jack the Lady Killer
pbk 15 Sep 99
