H.R.F. Keating

H.R.F. Keating was an English author best known for writing the Inspector Ghote and Evelyn Hervey series of books. He was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature. Keating was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex where he wrote his first story at the ripe age of eight years old. He would go on to Merchant Taylor’s School in London and later Trinity College, Dublin before he returned to London to work as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph. He reviewed crime books for them for a long time while also writing his own. The Perfect Murder is the first book in the Inspector Ghote series. Ghote is just starting his career with the Bombay Police when he lands the perfect murder to start his career. While dealing with that, he also has a cunning tycoon named Lala Varde to deal with and a the theft of a rupee from the desk of the Police Affairs and the Arts. He really has his plate full here and has to wade through all of the quagmires of incompentence and corruption to solve these curious crimes.