Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (Inspector Ghote Series #6)

by H. R. F. Keating, H. R. Keating

Overview

The Inspector finds himself in a small provincial town; his mandate is to investigate a death. 15 years earlier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897331777
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/28/1985
Series:	Inspector Ghote Series , #6
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.44(d)

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 Allen Poe Special Award.

Editorial Reviews

"Mr. Keating has a long-established winner in his sympathetic and lively hero, and this is one of his most enjoyable cases." — The Times

From the Publisher

"Mr. Keating has a long establilshed winner in his sympathetic and lively hero and this is one of his most enjoyable cases."

Times (London)

"Ghote, the little Indian cop who works out of Bombay, has developed into one of the great characters of the contemporary mystery novel. He is shrewd, he is a bit pompus, he is sensitive, he is determined." -- New York Times Book Review

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