H. R. F Keating
This detective novel is carefully plotted...
To Mark, comparatively safe up in less troubled Highgate, there comes a message that his estranged wife is dying over...
Summoned by the new, fanatically determined Chief Constable, Harriet Martens is startled to be greeted with the blunt question: "Who killed the Preacher?" She is then tasked with making use of the latest DNA techniques to investigate the murder, thirty years ago, of a charismatic youth known as the Boy Preacher, strangled in the empty ballroom of the city's Imperial Hotel, a building now slated for demolition.
Summoned by the new, fanatically
...In his proud new position in the prestigious Bombay Police Crime Branch, Inspector Ganesh Ghote is thrilled with the prospect of only the most high-profile murders to investigate. Unfortunately, the Assistant Commissioner keeps Ghote busy with interminable paperwork. Luckily, he finds his first case planted in his waste bin.
In his proud new position in the prestigious Bombay Police Crime Branch, Inspector Ganesh Ghote sees his career finally
...A case from his past is about to ruin Assistant Chief Constable Ned French's career. Heather Jonas, forced into a false confession to murder after a harrowing late-night interview session with French, has now served fifteen years of her twenty-year sentence. In all that time she's never appealed against her lot; but now the situation has changed. Someone else has confessed, and there's a citizen's rights campaigner on Heather's case who is determined
...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. And then there's the impossible theft of a single rupee to be dealt with...
In the house of Lala Varde, a vast man of even
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