Inspector Ghote breaks an egg,

KEATING. H.R.F.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

[Published for] the Crime Club [by] Collins

The assignment was routine: to bring a notorious confidence man, arrested in Calcutta, back to Bombay for trial. But Inspector Ghote devised a plan to make it almost a holiday -- to relax on the Calcutta Mail as it surged across the breadth of the Indian subcontinent. But Ghote's fellow passengers soon prove anything but restful.

Inspector Ghote goes by train

Collins

Inspector Ghote draws a line

Collins [for] the Crime Club

A princely state in India, 1930, under the British raj. To Bhopore and its opulent Summer Palace comes a handful of Western visitors to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they meet the Maharajah's heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet the enigmatic chief minister—and the aloof British resident, with his dignified little nine-year-old son. And before long they also meet sudden death.... Various people in the palace become suspects, and an imperturbable district superintendent of police is summoned. But who will he find guilty of the murder of the Maharajah?

The murder of the maharajah (The Crime club)

Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke.  On the morning of April Fools' Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas.  In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary.  The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until...

A remarkable case of burglary

Under a monsoon cloud

Hutchinson

Dead on Time

Iciest Sin

Mystery

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Cheating Death

Investigating an apparent open-and-shut case on Kanpur campus at  Bombay University, where students were able to purchase exam scores and  degrees, Inspector Ghote encounters a bigger web of deceit than he  anticipated. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

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