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London: Hutchinson, 1987. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, £ 9.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. Bombay's Inspector Ghote, an overworked and very insecure Bombay policeman, has been invited to a former exclusive Birtish colony in South India by a man who is steeped in classic British mysteries. Having read about Ghote's prowess (presumably in other books by Keating!), he assumes him to be the rightful heir to Holmes and Poirot, and presents him with what appears to him to be a classic locked-door mystery: a body on a billiard table. His first briefing contains a sentence to the effect "Of course we assume that the fact that the billiard-room window was smashed and the club's silver trophies stolen is merely a trick to throw us off the scent." And so it goes. Ghote goes through the book haunted by this flattery as a great detective of fiction, and does to a certain extent follow the pattern, but in the end comes up with a solution that… Read More

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1984. 1st. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, wraps, near fine. Author's first book. Amidst the conflict between the Muslims and Hindus in the 1950s, Muhammed Abdul Karim, newly established superintendent of police, is assigned to guard Nehru during his visit to a provincial university. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Book.

San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1984. 1st. edition, so stated, near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Amidst the conflict between the Muslims and Hindus in the 1950s, Muhammed Abdul Karim, newly established superintendent of police, is assigned to guard Nehru during his visit to a provincial university. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 1st edition, December 1990, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. An Inspector Ghote novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Crime Club Doubleday, 1971. 1st US ed. tape remains at covers, glue remains at inside fep, else very good in dj, spine and edges sunned (looks to be an ex-lb copy). Ins. Ghote title. INDIA.. First US. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday, 1972. 1st ed. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. remainder spray at bottom of pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Remainder.

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday, 1973. 1st ed. Small damp stain else very good in dust jacket, lightly soiled with some staining to rear panel. Inspector Ghote is asked by the Police Commissioner himself to investigate a kidnapping. When he arrives, the finds that it is a wealthy industrialist who is involved. However, the kidnappers did not take the businessman's son, but rather the son of his tailor, who was playing with the other boy at the time. Early in the book, the kidnappers realize their mistake, but they still demand an enormous sum for the release of the little boy. Mr. Desai, the industrialist, is torn between wanting to help and wanting to placate his young wife, who is furious at the idea of him paying any money for someone who is so unimportant. Superintendent Karandikar wants to bring in lots of police officers and capture the criminals. Only Inspector Ghote manages to stay focused on the real victim, the missing little boy, only a few years younger than his… Read More

Scottsdale: AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1999. 1st US edition. Trade paperback. Something truly unique from this author. It is one of the rarest forms known to literature, a detective novel in verse, Keating has developed his rhyme-crime in nearly 300 fourteen-line stanzas.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Book.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. First printing, December 2003. Published in an edition of 353 copies (plus 2 copies for copyright registry ) as a gift for friends of Crippen & Landru Publishers. Copies were not for sale. Cover design by Deborah Miller. A fine, unread copy in cream colored, stiff covers. 14 pages.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers, Stapled. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Miller, Deborah. Book.

London: UK: Macmillan, 1969. 1st ed. light wear to boards, pages darkening as usual, else very good in price clipped dust jacket, rubbed along edges, light soiling at rear panel, wear along folds. India setting, with Inspector Felse's son. An early title preceding her Brother Caudfel series. Young Dominic Felse (son og Chief Inspector George Felse of earlier Peter's novels) and his girlfriend escort a young girl through India and investigate a murder in this mystery. When his girlfriend’s beautiful but erratic film-star mother, Chloe, calls to ask a favor, Dominic Felse fears the worst. But she makes the couple an offer they can’t refuse: an all-expense-paid trip to India to escort Anjili Kumar, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Chloe’s costar, to stay with her father while her mother is filming in England. But Dominic’s fears are not unfounded, and they soon discover that traveling with the spoiled, precocious Anjili is no vacation--and the task of delivering her… Read More

N.Y.: Harper 1993, 1993. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Patrick Hyde title; Delhi. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2005. 1st. Ed. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. . India, 1922: Joe Sandilands, Scotland Yard detective, is staying with Governor Sir George Jardine in Simla when there is some unexpected news. Sir George sends Joe off to the Princely State of Ranipur in the company of Edgar Troop, an experienced hunter, at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. A man-eating tiger is terrorizing the northern villages, and the two men are invited to join a hunting party in the forest. But the quality of the weaponry with which Sir George supplies him raises Joe’s suspicions. The rifle will be perfect for the tiger, but why has he also been issued with the small Browning M pistol, designed for use on human targets? The Maharajah is dying and the succession is unclear. His first son has recently been killed in a panther-related incident. Then a second son dies dramatically before Joe’s eyes. The third and… Read More

NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2001. 1st ed. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Norbu, one of Tibet’s foremost writers at work today, has "discovered" the Mandala, a carefully wrapped package in (what else) a rusting tin box. When opened, the package reveals a Bengali scholar’s own account of his travels with Holmes. The Mandala holds the key to a mystery and tells the story of Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing, that it is impossible to resist. 288 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2001. Norbu, one of Tibet’s foremost writers at work today, has "discovered" the Mandala, a carefully wrapped package in (what else) a rusting tin box. When opened, the package reveals a Bengali scholar’s own account of his travels with Holmes. The Mandala holds the key to a mystery and tells the story of Holmes in a landscape so fascinating, a game so intriguing, that it is impossible to resist. 288 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: Scribners 1973, 1973. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped [$6.95 price intact] with protective mylar cover.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Crime Club Doubleday, 1984. 1st edition, so stated. . Near fine in dust jacket. It was as though fate itself had entrusted a dangerous and unwanted secret to Inspector Ghote. For among all of Bombay's teeming millions, he alone knew for certain that the murderer of the young, horribly beaten and strangled prostitute was none other than the exalted Sheriff of Bombay, the Rajah of Dhar, and famous former captain of the Indiian cricket team.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.