H. R. F. Keating
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Description
H.R.F. Keating (full name Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating) (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police, whose first appearance in The Perfect Murder (1964) won the author the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and an Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America. He eventually wrote twenty-six Ghote novels. The Murder of the Maharajah brought H.R.F. Keating a second Gold Dagger in 1980. Mr Keating, a past Chairman of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers Association, was crime reviewer for The Times from 1967 to 1983. Among the books about his art he had written or edited is Whodunit, a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. He wrote three books under the pseudonym Evelyn Hervey.
Books
The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime
A detective under fire
Struggling to work with a crew that refuses to take her seriously, detective superintendent Harriet Martens is surprised when her superiors place her in charge of a major investigation, which proves difficult in the wake of peer scorn. 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 in the elite Maximum Crimes Squad, when she suddenly finds herself under fire. Not only is she opposed by the head of the Squad, the popular, macho cop known as the Boxer, but she is menaced by mysterious figures from its current target, a worldwide Colombian smuggling network. Then she becomes a target for yet another elite - the Press. Is Harriet enough of an elite figure herself to withstand the fire?
The Bad Detective
Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career, and dreams of retirement in Devon until an influential businessman offers him the paradise island of Ko Samui. All he has to do is steal an incriminating file from the Fraud Investigation Office at police HQ.