HRF Keating, R. I. P.

HRF Keating - Telegraph: "HRF Keating, who died on March 27 aged 84, was one of Britain’s leading detective story writers and the inspired creator of Inspector Ghote.

He also wrote many non-Ghote crime stories, several general novels — including two with Victorian backgrounds (The Strong Man and The Underside) — and other works under the pen-name of Evelyn Harvey. But it is his little Indian detective, with his gentle, ironic persona and manners far removed from Western 20th-century culture, for which Keating will be remembered."

Hat tip to Todd Mason.