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The assignment was routine - to bring a notorious confidence trickster, arrested in Calcutta, back to Bombay for trial. But Inspector Ghote devised a plan to make it almost a holiday - but Ghote's fellow passengers soon prove anything but restful.Tags
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I think Inspector Ghote Goes by Train is my favorite so far of this series. Ghote has been assigned to bring con man A. K. Bhattacharya back to Bombay from Calcutta. He convinces his superior to allow him to go by train, 40 hours in each direction. While he is looking forward to the pleasure of simply traveling, to his dismay a talkative Bengali is sitting in his compartment. And so begins a complex battle of wits.
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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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- Original publication date
- 1971
- People/Characters
- Ganesh Ghote
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- Members
- 50
- Popularity
- 605,354
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.36)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 6
