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....

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

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....

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

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

Some crooks have tried to snatch the plump son of a business tycoon, and have accidentally made off with his playmate instead....

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

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

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