The Perfect Murder

The Perfect Murder

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name = The Perfect Murder


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author = H. R. F. Keating
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = crime novel
publisher = Collins Crime Club
pub_date = 1964
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 249 pp
isbn = 0002316838

"The Perfect Murder" is a crime novel by H. R. F. Keating.

The novel is the first appearance of Keating's serial detective, Inspector Ghote of Mumbai police, 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 in 1964 and was adapted into a film in 1988 by Merchant Ivory.


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