The Perfect Murder

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The Perfect Murder
Author	H. R. F. Keating
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	crime novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	249 pp
ISBN	0002316838

The Perfect Murder is a crime novel by H. R. F. Keating.

The novel is the first appearance of Keating's serial detective, Inspector Ghote of Mumbai police, in which his investigation of the apparent murder of the Parsi Mr Perfect was assisted informally by the Swedish UNESCO analyst Axel Svensson. The novel, which Keating wrote without ever having been to India, won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1964 and was adapted into a film in 1988 by Merchant Ivory.

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