The Perfect Murder

Keating, H. R. F. (signed)

ISBN 10: 0897330781 / ISBN 13: 9780897330787

Published by Academy Chicago Publishers, 1997

About this Item

soft cover, reprint 1997, signed and inscribed by the author on title page " To the Nevilles at Crime in Store London H. F. R. Keating" fine condition, murder mystery set in Bombay, India.

Seller Inventory # 6597

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Perfect Murder
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897330781
• ISBN 13: 9780897330787
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

It is just Inspector Ghote's luck to be landed with the case of the Perfect Murder at the start of his career with the Bombay Police. For this most baffling of crimes there is the cunning and important tycoon Lala Varde to contend with. And if this were not enough, Ghote finds himself having to investigate the mysertious theft of one rupee from the desk of yet another Very Important Person—the Minister of Police Affairs and the Arts. "If people would only behave in a simple, reasonable, logical way, " sighs the inspector as he struggles through the quagmires of incompentence and corruption to solve these curious crimes.

About the Author

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 Allan Poe Special Award.