H. R. F. Keating, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-53506-3
British author Keating is the creator of that wonder of detectives, Inspector Ghote, and it would take a detective of his ilk to find something of value in these insubstantial stories. Each is a few pages long, allowing no time for development of...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-312-24648-8
Contemporary British police procedural meets old-fashioned puzzle mystery in this slick, streamlined effort from veteran Edgar-winner Keating (The Bad Detective, The Soft Detective, etc.). Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens has put Greater...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-24371-5
British Det. Sgt. Jack Stallworthy didn't start out as a corrupt cop. He had every intention of protecting the people of Abbotsport. But when his wife, Lily, his only obsession, wanted her own car, what was an underpaid cop supposed to do but take a
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20502-7
The take-charge Inspector Ghote (Asking Questions, etc.) of the Bombay police is decidedly out of his element on a trip to Calcutta. He is accompanied to that boisterous yet decaying city by his domineering wife, Protima, so that she might inspect...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-19335-5
""Soft as a duck's arse,"" his sergeant observes of London's Detective Chief Inspector Phil Benholme, although not to his face. When Professor Unwala, an aging scientist who'd won a Nobel Prize in the 1940s, is murdered, Benholme's calm detachment...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-15057-0
Keating has a new American publisher for his 21st Inspector Ganesh Ghote mystery (Doing Wrong, etc.), but the Bombay cop is still his old prying self in this classic locked-room puzzler. Sought out at home by Bombay's police commissioner, Ghote is...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author O. Penzler Books $20 (218p) ISBN 978-1-883402-80-8
This quiet, thoughtful novel by Gold Dagger winner Keating (Go West, Inspector Ghote) is crime fiction as philosophical disquisition-on right and wrong, ends and means, sin and redemption. From Bombay, the exquisitely courteous, ever persistent...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (172p) ISBN 978-0-89296-512-0
The 19th Inspector Ghote novel finds the lovable Indian detective embroiled in an academic cheating scandal, under pressure from his superiors and vexed by pressing domestic business. When a final exam paper is circulated throughout Bombay's Oceanic
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-89296-506-9
Keating's latest mystery is a sophisticated work: a slice of edgy crime fiction that hints at dark obsessions percolating beneath the surface of William Sylvester, a detective inspector with South Mercia CID. Often the butt of his colleague's jokes,
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Viking Books $15.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-670-81744-3
This brief, entertaining novel, the 17th featuring Bombay's Inspector Ghote, 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...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-32214-4
Det. Supt. Harriet Martens (aka the Hard Detective) has a controlling new boss ("Mr. Newbroom"), a new and very cold case and the deck stacked against her in this solid police procedural from prolific British author Keating (A Detective...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Viking Books $15.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-670-80367-5
A.D.I.G. (Additional Deputy Inspector-General) ""Tiger'' Kelkar has gone to Vigatpore, outside Bombay, to check on Inspector G. V. Ghote's temporary work there. In a fit of righteous temper, Kelkar throws an inkpot at a foolish sergeant, killing him.
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-29143-3
Det. Supt. Harriet Martens, last seen in 2000's The Hard Detective, makes a welcome return in British veteran H.R.F. Keating's A Detective in Love. A high-profile investigation into a top tennis star's murder gets even more complicated when ...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-312-31657-0
Det. Supt. Martens must conduct a delicate probe into possible scandal in the Maximum Crimes Squad.
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-26952-4
In Breaking and Entering: An Inspector Ghote Mystery, the prolific H.R.F. Keating (Doing Wrong) puts another notch in the belt of his popular hero, Bombay Inspector Ganesh Ghote. When Ghote is assigned to a series of jewelry thefts instead of a ...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (199p) ISBN 978-0-684-81522-0
Keating (The Rich Detective) writes crime fiction that refuses to pander and consistently entertains as it unfolds, enigma after enigma. The title is deliberately ambiguous. Is Ned French, Assistant Chief Constable of Norchester, England, good in...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author Poisoned Pen Press $14.95 (164p) ISBN 978-1-890208-24-0
Prolific British mystery-maker Keating returns to the India of his well-received Inspector Ghote novels, but this time with new characters and a new form: a detective novel in rhyming verse, the first in recent memory. Set in the Punjab in the last...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-312-38404-3
The sudden, violent death of a British memsahib launches this pleasing prequel to the long-running Inspector Ghote series (Breaking and Entering
, etc.) from CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger–winner Keating. Newly minted police inspector Ghote is...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-37533-1
In British author Keating's underwhelming seventh Hard Detective mystery (after 2006's One Man and His Bomb
), Birchester Det. Supt. Harriet Martens and her husband, John Piddock, witness a murder attempt in the course of an anti-hunting...
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H. R. F. Keating, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-312-34988-2
British veteran Keating's less than riveting sixth Det. Supt. Harriet Martens procedural (after 2005's A Detective at Death's Door
) opens, literally, with a bang, but the plot remains tepid and the characters' mostly stoic response...
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