H. R. F. Keating

31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011

95 works on record

Biography

H.R.F. Keating (full name Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating) (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police, whose first appearance in *The Perfect Murder* (1964) won the author the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and an Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America. He eventually wrote twenty-six Ghote novels. *The Murder of the Maharajah* brought H.R.F. Keating a second Gold Dagger in 1980. Mr Keating, a past Chairman of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers Association, was crime reviewer for The Times from 1967 to 1983. Among the books about his art he had written or edited is *Whodunit*, a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. He wrote three books under the pseudonym Evelyn Hervey.

Works

Inspector Ghote's first case

2009

Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs (Harriet Martens Mysteries)

2008

One Man and His Bomb (Harriet Martens Mysteries)

2006

Sherlock Holmes

2006

A detective at death's door

2005

A Dreaming Detective

2004

Escribir Novela Negra

2003

Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker (Death)

2002

A detective under fire

2002

The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime

2002

Inspector Ghote Draws Line

2002

A detective in love

2001

The hard detective

2000

Breaking and entering

2000

Bribery, corruption also

1999

Jack, the lady killer

1999

The soft detective

1998

In Kensington Gardens once--

1997

Asking Questions

1997

The Bad Detective

1997

The Perfect Murder (Inspector Ghote Mystery)

1997

THE INSPECTOR GHOTE MYSTERIES - An Omnibus: Book (1) One: The Perfect Murder; Book (2) Two: Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade; Book (3) Three

1996

West Highland Way (Walker's Route)

1996

Win, Lose or Die

1996

The good detective

1995

Doing Wrong (Crime Case)

1995

Is Skin Deep, Is Fatal

1995

Cheating Death

1994

2nd Culprit

1994

Mrs. Craggs Crimes Cleaned Up

1993

P D James

1993

The rich detective

1993

Crime Waves

1992

Writing Crime Fiction (Books for Writers)

1991

The iciest sin

1990

Inspector Ghote, his life and crimes

1989

Dead on Time

1989

The Bedside Companion to Crime

1989

Under a Monsoon Cloud

1988

Crime and Mystery

1987

The body in the billiard room

1987

Into the Valley of Death

1986

The Sheriff Of Bombay (An Inspector Ghote Novel)

1985

The man of gold

1985

The governess

1983

Great crimes

1982

A rush on the ultimate

1982

Whodunit

1982

The lucky Alphonse

1982

Go West, Inspector Ghote

1981

The murder of the maharajah

1980

A long walk to Wimbledon

1978

Filmi Filmi, Inspector Ghote

1976

A remarkable case of burglary

1975

Murder must appetize

1975

The underside

1974

Bats fly up for Inspector Ghote

1973

Blood on my mind

1972

Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart

1972

Inspector Ghote goes by train

1971

The strong man

1971

Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg

1970

Inspector Ghote hunts the peacock

1968

Inspector Ghote caught in meshes

1967

Inspector Ghote's good crusade

1966

Zen there was murder

1963

Death of a fat god

1963

The dog it was that died

1962

Death and the visiting firemen

1959

Agatha Christie

A Small Case For Inspector Ghote

The Droitwich Connection

3rd Culprit

Crime writers

A la carte

Majumdar Uncle

Sherlock Holmes The Man and His World

Criminal Law

A Kind of Light

L'Inspecteur Ghote mène la croisade

Aftershock; the Big Footprints; Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote

L'inspecteur ghote en californie (French Edition)

Tthe Murder of Maharajah

Some Girls Do

Julian Symons remembered

Crime stories from the S̀trand'

The Ethnic Detectives

Deadlier than the male

Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (Nelson Graded Readers)

Inspector Ghotes Hunts Peacock

The Man Who...

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Temps morts

Où est le mal?

MURDER BY DEATH