In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician's wife has done her husband's career a great service, by dying under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse and the trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn't saved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate. But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so powerful, when the whole district is against him, and when a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying? But still the good inspector dutifully goes, carrying just the honour of his police force and a box of double-sized eggs...
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Utterly loveable...Ghote is one of the great creations of detective fiction Alexander McCall Smith
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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. He died in London in March 2011 at the age of 84. He is survived by his wife, the actress Sheila Mitchell, and his three sons and a daughter. Alexander McCall Smith is an internationally bestselling Scottish writer, most widely known as the creator of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels.
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GREAT INDIAN MYSTERY,
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This review is from: Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (Inspector Ghote, Bk 6) (Paperback)
A friend loaned me this book at work because he knew I enjoyed historical fiction. Altho this is a fictional mystery, it is written with such delicate and accurate description of character and setting, that I was transported to rural India with Ghote as he faced what seemed impossible to solve. And it is funny, but in a dry british way. When the book was over, I had a crush on inspector ghote, and was very happy to see there are other books in the series. There are linguistic and cultural references that make the story very authentic and ring true for anyone who has spent time in India.
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An interesting British author. His stories are slow in developing but mesmerizing as he tells the eccentricities of Indian culture while solving a mystery.
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