H.R.F. Keating: The Perfect Murder (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
In the house of Lala Varde, a vast man of even greater influence, an attack has taken place. Varde's secretary, Mr Perfect, has been struck on his invaluable business head. And try as Inspector Ghote might to remain conscientious and methodical, his investigation is beset on all sides by cunning, disdain and corruption. And then there's the impossible theft of a single rupee to be dealt with...

The Perfect Murder introduced Inspector Ghote: Bombay CID's most dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction.

H.R.F. Keating: The Perfect Murder. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141194479 (April, 2011), 288 p., £8.99.

H.R.F. Keating: The Perfect Murder (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
It is just Inspector Ghote's luck to be landed with the case of The Perfect Murder at the start of his career with the Bombay Police. For in this most baffling of crimes there is the cunning and important tycoon Lala Varde to contend with, and as if this were not enough, Ghote finds himself having to investigate the mysterious theft of one rupee from the desk of another very important person, the Minister of Police Affairs and the Arts. The Perfect Murder won both an Edgar Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Golden Dagger from the English Crime Writers Association. H. R. F. Keating is the author of many acclaimed mysteries.

H.R.F. Keating: The Perfect Murder. Academy Chicago Pub., ISBN: 0897330781 (October, 1997), 256 p., $4.95.