Murder of the Maharajah

Name: Murder of the Maharajah
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780523416250

by Unknown Author

1983Kensington Publishing CorporationISBN 9780523416250

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In the princely state of Bhopore, India, 1930, a handful of Western visitors comes to the opulent Summer Palace to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they meet the Maharajah's heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet the enigmatic chief minister, and the aloof British Resident, with his dignified little nine-year-old son. And before long, they also meet sudden death... Various people in the Palace become suspects, and an imperturbable District Superintendent of Police is called in. But who will he find guilty of the murder of the Maharajah?

Publication Details

Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: 1983
ISBN: 9780523416250

About Unknown Author

H.R.F. Keating (full name Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating) (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was the creator of Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police, whose first appearance in *The Perfect Murder* (1964) won the author the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger and an Edgar Allan Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America. He eventually wrote twenty-six Ghote novels. *The Murder of the Maharajah* brought H.R.F. Keating a second Gold Dagger in 1980. Mr Keating, a past Chairman of the Society of Authors and of the Crime Writers Association, was crime reviewer for The Times from 1967 to 1983. Among the books about his art he had written or edited is *Whodunit*, a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. He wrote three books under the pseudonym Evelyn Hervey.