Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock

Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock
Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock

Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock

By H.R.F Keating

Inspector Ghote Series

FICTION

226 Pages, 4.25 x 7

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $12.95 (CA $15.95) (US $12.95)

ISBN 9780897331791

Rights: US

Chicago Review Press (Aug 2005)
Academy Chicago Publishers

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Overview

Inspector Ganesh Ghote comes to London!The Indian police inspector (pronounced Go-tay) is sent to attend an international conference on drug smuggling; and in cold, drizzling London he is faced with his first case outside India.It is a very odd case. The girl, Ranee, niece of relatives of Ghote who live in London, has vanished—seduced, kidnapped, murdered, so her relatives allege, by the notorious pop singer Johnny Bull. Ghote is hounded by the relatives into spending his few leisure hours from the conference in trying to find Ranee—known for her brilliance as The Peacock.

Author Biography

H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of service in the army, which he describes as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime books reviewer for "The Times" for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award.

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