The Perfect Murder

Informationen zum Autor H. R. F. Keating Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In the house of Lala Varde, a vast man of even greater influence, an attack has taken place. Varde's secretary, Mr Perfect, has been struck on his invaluable business head. And try as Inspector Ghote might to remain conscientious and methodical, his investigation is beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption.

Product details

• Authors: H R F Keating, H. R. F. Keating, H.R.F. Keating, Henry R. F. Keating, Alexander McCall Smith
• Assisted by: Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction), McCall Smith Alexander (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780141194479
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119447-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction