Inspector Ghote series by H.R.F. Keating (# 1, 4-6, 8-9, 11, 15-17, 23)
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Overview: Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating was an English writer of crime fiction most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.
H. R. F. KEATING was well versed in the worlds of crime, fiction and nonfiction. He was the crime books reviewer for The Times for fifteen years, as well as serving as the chairman of the Crime Writers Association and the Society of Authors. He won the CWA Gold Dagger Award twice, and in 1996 was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding service to crime fiction.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery > Historical Mystery
1. The Perfect Murder (1964)
In the house of Lala Varde, a vast man of even greater influence, an attack has taken place. Varde’s secretary, Mr Perfect, has been struck on his invaluable business head. And try as Inspector Ghote might to remain conscientious and methodical, his investigation is beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. And then there’s the impossible theft of a single rupee to be dealt with . . .The Perfect Murder introduced Inspector Ghote: Bombay CID’s most dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction.
4. Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock (1968)
Inspector Ghote comes to London… The Indian police inspector is to attend an international conference on drug smuggling; and in cold, drizzling London he is faced with his first case outside India. It’s a very odd case. The girl, Ranee, niece of relatives of Ghote who live in London, has vanished – kidnapped, murdered, so her relatives allege, by a notorious pop singer. And Ghote is hounded by the relatives in trying to find Ranee – known for her brilliance as The Peacock.
5. Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker (1969)
Inspector Ghote embarks on one of his strangest cases when he is ordered to prevent a murder – the killing of a precious flamingo in the Bombay zoo. And then there is the racehorse fancied to win the local Derby, which gets replaced by a donkey… Ghote finds things going disastrously as bit by bit he unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker. But then the fun stops – and Inspector Ghote has a more serious murder on his hands.
6. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (1970)
In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician’s wife has done her husband’s career a great service, by dying under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse and the trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn’t saved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate. But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so powerful, when the whole district is against him, and when a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying?But still the good inspector dutifully goes, carrying just the honour of his police force and a box of double-sized eggs . . .
8. Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart (1972)
Some crooks have tried to snatch the plump son of a business tycoon, and have accidentally made off with his playmate instead. But they’re not changing their plan: a payment is to be delivered to them or a small corpse is to be delivered to Inspector Ghote.But what kind of ransom can a mere tailor’s boy demand? And, as something more unpleasant than just a ransom note arrives from the kidnappers, are the police helping keep the boy in one piece?
9. Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote (1974)
Inspector Ghote is in trouble, worse trouble than ever before. When this adventure begins, he has already been relegated to the anti-pickpocket patrol, where he promptly gets himself into a fearful fix. Before long comes a topsy-turvy transfer to the Bats, as the specially selected officers of the Black-money and Allied Transactions Squad proudly call themselves. There Ghote is in worse straits, under compulsion to suspect every move and every word of his new super-efficient colleagues; he is also plagued by black thoughts about his loved ones at home.
11. Inspector Ghote Draws a Line (1979)
How do you guard a man who passes off anonymous threats on his life as mere foolishness? Sent to a remote part of India on the pretense of helping Judge Asif with his memoirs, the Inspector’s actual mission is to find out who would benefit from sending these unsavory warnings. But when the shrewd Judge discovers the real reason for the Inspector’s presence, he refuses to co-operate until it become evident that the threats are coming from someone in the household – perhaps his beautiful, high-strung daughter or his lunatic son; a militant American priest or the editor of a leftist newspaper who has a crush on the Judge’s daughter….
15. Under a Monsoon Cloud (1986)
What had until recently been a police sergeant is now lying at Ghote’s feet bleeding its last. An accident it may have been, but Ghote saw exactly what happened, and it’s his duty to arrest the killer. Isn’t it? Or can the inspector better serve his beloved police force by disposing of the body, by concealing a crime? And if he does, will he manage to keep his terrible secret?As an Inquiry begins beneath the first torrents of monsoon rain — will he even want to?
16. The Body in the Billiard Room (1987)
This brief, entertaining novel finds the dauntless detective summoned to the hill station of Ootacamund (”Ooty”) in South India, where he must locate a ”diabolically ingenious murderer.” A former ambassador, Surinder Mehta, calls upon Ghote to probe the death of Pichu, billiards marker at the genteel Ooty Club, gathering place for well-to-do Indians and English. Pichu had been found sprawled in the middle of the billiard table, stabbed in the heart; the murder weapon is missing, as are many of the club’s silver trophies. Aspiring ”Great Detective” Ghote puzzles over this troublesome case with Mehta, an aging crime novel buff who doggedly defends his theory that Pichu’s slaying occurred because he was blackmailing some frequenter of the club. As Ghote stalks a motley group of suspects, he despairs of solving the homicide until the culprit’s identity comes to him in a most unlikely fashion.
17. Dead On Time (1988)
Ramrao Pendke, heir to a massive country fortune, is in Bombay recovering from a kidney transplant operation. Out taking exercise, Pendke visits the Ticktock watchworks and is bludgeoned to death. The head of the Bombay police backs the prompt arrest made by a pet officer of his, Assistant Inspector Lobo, who has forced a confession out of Rustom Fardoomji, owner of the watch store. Ghote has doubts about the confession. He also agrees with the relatives of the accused: Fardoomji would have no reason to do away with a wealthy customer. In order to placate these influential relatives, Ghote is sent to the dead man’s home village – a slow-paced backwater the inspector finds maddening. In the course of his energetically pursued investigation he interviews an astrologer, the village barber, a boy Brahmin, and the dead man’s grieving grandfather. In the face of a 24 hour ultimatum, Ghote at last finds the essential clue that solves the most difficult case of his career.
23. Bribery, Corruption Also (1999)
Indian Inspector Ghote, officer of the Bombay Police, is on leave to accompany his wife to Calcutta where she has inherited a house from a relative. Protima, Ghote’s wife, has fond childhood memories of the house, and hopes to live there. Upon their arrival, they face a frustrating legal maze in trying to obtain the property. The city seems corrupt on every level. Ghote can trust no one and suspects that control of the house is part of a conspiracy to develop the nearby wetlands. Grave danger threatens Ghote before he can discover the slippery truth.
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