Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart [antikvár]

H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. From his father's prep school in Hertfordshire he went to Merchant Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the B.B.C. After a period of what he describes as 4 totally undistinguished service' in the army, which he joined the day the war ended, he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a Scholar in modern literature. From Dublin he went to Wiltshire as a journalist and, before he began devoting most of his time to writing for himself, he had worked in Fleet Street on the Daily Telegraph and The Times. Amongst his books are Death and the Visiting Firemen, Zen There Was Murder, and The Perfect Murder which won the Crime Writers Association Award for 1964. He was Chairman of the Crime Writers Association 1970-71 and is crime fiction reviewer for The Times. Several other books by H. R. F. Keating, The Dog it was that Died, Death of a Fat God, A Rush on the Ultimate, Is Skin-Deep, Is Fatal, Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker and Inspector Ghote Goes By Train have been published in Penguins. His latest books include The Underside (1974) and A Remarkable Case of Burglary (1975). The author is married to Sheila Mitchell, an actress, and has three sons and a daughter.