H. R. F. Keating

Sent to a remote part of India to find out who could benefit from Judge Asif's death, Ghote can get no cooperation....

An American visitor to India is killed on the road from Bombay to Poona....

It is Inspector Ghote's bad luck to be landed with the case of the perfect murder at the start of his career....

This was no ordinary murder, for the victim was Frank Masters, millionaire and philanthropist. The case was bound to attract much public attention....

A case from his past is about to ruin Assistant Chief Constable Ned French's career....

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....

Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police has been regulated to antipickpocket patrol, where he promptly gets himself into one of those fearful fixes....

In a small, provincial town in the heart of India....

What had until recently been a police sergeant is now lying at Ghote’s feet bleeding its last....

Harriet Martens, named ‘The Hard Detective’ by the media because of her unrelenting opposition to every sort of evil-doing, has been secretly summoned to London to investigate corruption....