Inspector Ghote
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Inspector Ganesh Ghote is a fictional police officer who appears as the main character in H. R. F. Keating's detective novels. He is an inspector in the police force of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India.
Ghote first appeared in the novel The Perfect Murder (1964), in which his investigation of the apparent murder of the Parsi Mr Perfect was assisted informally by the Swedish UNESCO analyst Axel Svensson. The novel, which Keating wrote without ever having been to India, won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and was adapted into a film titled The Perfect Murder in 1988 by Merchant Ivory.
Ghote's final appearance was in the novel Breaking and Entering (2000). He is reunited with Axel Svensson as he investigates a series of cat burglaries that ultimately enable him to solve the high profile murder that is occupying the rest of his colleagues.
Ghote's father appears in the novel The Murder of the Maharajah (1980).
Ganesh Ghote's character has appeared in a couple of movies and serials. In one, the noted actor Naseeruddin Shah played the role of Ghote in The Perfect Murder. The movie shows Ganesh Ghote as a family man, who sometimes gets nagged and irritated by his (loving) wife, because of his irregular work schedules, while under tremendous pressure from his superior officers to solve a case quickly.
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- Keating, H. R. F. The Perfect Murder, (London:Collins Crime Club, 1964) (New York: Dutton, l965)
- Keating, H. R. F. Breaking and Entering, (London:Macmillan, 2000)
- Keating, H. R. F. The Murder of the Maharajah (London:Collins Crime Club, 1980)
