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Book by H. R. F. Keating For the Jeffrey Archer story, see The Perfect Murder (short story).

The Perfect Murder
First edition
AuthorH. R. F. Keating
LanguageEnglish
Genrecrime novel
PublisherCollins Crime Club
Publication date1964
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages249 pp
ISBN0-00-231683-8
OCLC16545741

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.

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

References

  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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