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Officially excluded from the most baffling murder case to occur in Bombay for many years, Inspector Ghote has only one option - to track down the killer unofficially instead. All Bombay is buzzing with news of the murder of Anil Ajmani. It is certainly a baffling case, for the millionaire was found stabbed to death in his tightly secure mansion. Every inspector in the Crime Branch hopes to nail the killer. Including Inspector Ghote. Unfortunately, he is the only officer not assigned to the show more case. Instead he has been given the less glorious task of tracking down a cat burglar. Aided - or perhaps hampered - by his old friend Axel Svensson, Ghote races to uncover Yeshwant's true identity. And in doing so unexpectedly finds that he may be the one to solve the murder of Anil Ajmani after all... show lessTags
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I love the ever thinking and scheming Inspector Ghote. Struggling to be noticed and solve an important case he is assigned a routine b and e. And then he runs into his old Swedish friend and he reluctantly allows him to tag along with him. Lo and behold he solves the big murder case! He has the stereotypical dialect down pat. All the Indian words that the Swede mangeles. Yes he is keen to be Marlowe. Wish I could get more of these from the CPL. The ones I have gotten so far are tattered large print library books. Still, love the Ghote!
Inspector Ghote is assigned a series of acrobatic jewel robberies (and is further hampered by the dubious assistance of a Swedish acquaintance of the past) while the rest of the force is investigating a spectacular murder. Pleasant, competent murder with lots of colorful details of Indian life.
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H. R. F. Keating (Henry Reymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating) was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea on October 31, 1926. He attended Merchant Taylor's School in London, England and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He worked for The Times (London) as the crime books reviewer from 1967 to 1983. His first novel, Death and the Visiting Firemen, was show more published in 1959. He wrote about 50 fiction and nonfiction works during his lifetime, but is best known for the Inspector Ghote series. His other works include the Harriet Martens Mysteries series and Sherlock Holmes: The Man and His World. Keating received the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1964 for The Perfect Murder and in 1980 for The Murder of the Maharajah, the Edgar Alan Poe award in 1988, the George N. Dove Award in 1995, and the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding service to crime fiction in 1996. He died of cardiac failure on March 27, 2011 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Breaking and Entering
- Original publication date
- 2000
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