The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery
The First Inspector Ghote Mystery
$24.53
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2011
Summary
The Perfect Murder introduced Inspector Ghote—Bombay CID’s most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction.
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 Mode…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141194479 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141194472 |
| Author: | H.R.F. Keating, Alexander McCall Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 8 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Utterly loveable…Ghote is one of the great creations of detective fiction
Utterly loveable…Ghote is one of the great creations of detective fiction * Alexander McCall Smith *
About The Author
H.R.F. Keating
H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. 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. He died in London in March 2011 at the age of 84. He is survived by his wife, the actress Sheila Mitchell, and his three sons and a daughter.
Alexander McCall Smith is an internationally bestselling Scottish writer, most widely known as the creator of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of novels.
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