The namesake for my BookLikes life, Murder by Death is, in my opinion, one of the best movies ever made. What Blazing Saddles did for westerns, Murder by Death did for the traditional murder mysteries. With an almost dream-team cast that included Truman Capote, Dame Maggie Smith, Peter Faulk, Pete...
bookshelves: under-10-ratings, tbr-busting-2015, spring-2015, victoriana, series, published-1985, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, mystery-thriller, cosy, arch, bloat, britain-england, fraudio, filthy-lucre, gambling, poison, moral-high-ground, london Read on April 23, 2015 Description: Harrie...
bookshelves: spring-2015, series, tbr-busting-2015, victoriana, mystery-thriller, london, britain-england, cosy, arch, bloat, flufferoonies, fraudio, look-behind-you, overwrought, recreational-homicide Read from April 02 to 03, 2015 Read by Sheila MitchellDescription: The mansion housed a murde...
bookshelves: autumn-2010, subcontinent, mystery-thriller, published-1980, play-dramatisation Recommended for: BBC7 listeners Read on October 25, 2010 Set in the India of the British Raj - His Highness plays one April Fool's joke too many. Stars Zia Mohyeddin and Sam Dastor.http://www.bbc.co.uk/i...
The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating is the first book of the series featuring Inspector Ghote of Bombay (now Mumbai C.I.D). I had always wanted to read this series, as I had been recommended about it a lot. But, after reading this book I can fairly say that I am hugely disappointed. And, I really h...
Set in the India of the British Raj - His Highness plays one April Fool's joke too many. Stars Zia Mohyeddin and Sam Dastor.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vfhv3/HRF_Keating_The_Murder_of_the_Maharajah/
This was an all shades of grey kinda plot. Ghote is torn between loyalty to his country, to his job and the friendship that's he's developing with Professor Gregory Strongbow, who's brother Hector death Ghote is investigating. It's a particularly interesting point of view, essentially almost all Gho...
First published in 1966, this second novel featuring Inspector Ganesh Ghote, policeman, detective in Bombay is an interesting look at philanthropy and how some people with good intentions do more harm than good. And how fickle are the very rich people. Not much has changed since then so the setting ...
This I loved. It's comedy and social critic masquerading as a mystery novel. Written in the mid 60's, this is the first Inspector Ghote novel. Set in Bombay some 15 years after India became independent, we follow inspector Ghote, a young husband and father, trying to be a good policeman, a good insp...
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