The Perfect Murder (novel)

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The Perfect Murder
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First edition
Author H. R. F. Keating
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre crime novel
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1964
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages249 pp
ISBN 0-00-231683-8
OCLC 16545741

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, [1] won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1964. [2]

It was adapted into a film in 1988 produced by Merchant Ivory starring Stellan Skarsgård as Svensson and Naseeruddin Shah as Inspector Ghote.

  1. Tamaya, Meera (1993). H.R.F. Keating: Post-Colonial Detection (A Critical Study). Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p. 23.
  2. "The Perfect Murder". The Crime Writers’ Association. Retrieved 10 November 2023.

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