Order of H.R.F. Keating Books
H.R.F. Keating was an English author best known for writing the Inspector Ghote and Evelyn Hervey series of books. He was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature.
Keating was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex where he wrote his first story at the ripe age of eight years old. He would go on to Merchant Taylor’s School in London and later Trinity College, Dublin before he returned to London to work as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph. He reviewed crime books for them for a long time while also writing his own.
Publication Order of Inspector Ghote Books
| The Perfect Murder | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Goes By Train | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote Draws a Line | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Murder of the Maharajah | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Go West, Inspector Ghote | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sheriff of Bombay | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Under a Monsoon Cloud | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Body in the Billiard Room | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead on Time | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote, His Life and Crimes | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Iciest Sin | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cheating Death | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doing Wrong | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Asking Questions | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bribery, Corruption Also | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Breaking and Entering | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inspector Ghote's First Case | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Small Case for Inspector Ghote? | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Harriet Martens Books
| The Hard Detective | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Detective in Love | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Detective Under Fire | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dreaming Detective | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Detective at Death's Door | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One Man and His Bomb | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Harriet Unwin Mystery Books
(as Evelyn Hervey)
| The Governess | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man of Gold | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Into the Valley of Death | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| In Kensington Gardens Once... | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Blood on My Mind | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sherlock Holmes | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Whodunit?: A Guide To Crime, Suspense and Spy Fiction | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writing Crime Fiction | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime and Mystery | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Crimes | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bedside Companion to Crime | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Agatha Christie | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chilling and Killing | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crime Waves 1 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Verdict of Thirteen | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 1st Culprit | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who... | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 3rd Culprit | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crown Crime Companion | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Criminal Records | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like H.R.F. Keating Books, You’ll Love…
The Perfect Murder is the first book in the Inspector Ghote series. Ghote is just starting his career with the Bombay Police when he lands the perfect murder to start his career. While dealing with that, he also has a cunning tycoon named Lala Varde to deal with and a the theft of a rupee from the desk of the Police Affairs and the Arts. He really has his plate full here and has to wade through all of the quagmires of incompentence and corruption to solve these curious crimes.
The Harriet Martens series is another book series by Keating. The first book in the series is The Hard Detective. This book introduces us to the Detective Chief Inspector as she is trying to clean up Greater Birchester with the “Stop the Rot” campaign. Not everyone is on board with the campaign though and that comes to a head when a night-patrol constable is murdered while on duty. The officers start to become targeted and Martens recognizes a twisted pattern among the murders. The killer is on a personal quest for revenge and in order to stop him, and stop the rot, Harriet will put her own life on the line.