HRF Keating

HRF Keating (born October 31, 1926 in St Leonards-on-Sea , † March 27, 2011 in London ; full name Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating ) was a British crime writer .

Life

Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, now a borough of Hastings, in 1926 and went to school in London. During his college years he lived in Dublin, Ireland. He was originally a trained radio technician, but from the 1960s onwards he worked as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph in London. He was a crime novel reviewer for the Times for 15 years.

He began writing detective novels in the late 1960s . His debut novel Death and the Visiting Firemen was published in London in 1959. Nevertheless, it took five more novels and a change of publisher to make his breakthrough. In 1964, Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police Department made his first appearance in The Perfect Murder . For this he not only received the highest British crime crime award, the Gold Dagger , but was also nominated for the American Edgar .

As a result, Ganesh Ghote became Keating's main character for the next ten years. However, it took that long before the author came to India for the first time and got to know the homeland of his protagonist personally. The series now comprises 25 books.

From the mid-1970s, Keating again increasingly wrote crime novels with changing investigators. Another time, in 1980 with The Murder of the Maharajah , one of his crime novels earned him a Gold Dagger, something only a few authors managed to do. The book is often assigned to the Ghote series: Although Ganesh Ghote is not part of the party, his father is.

In 2000, Keating decided it was time to end Ghote's career at the usual retirement age of 55 and published his last case as an inspector, at least in chronological terms, Breaking and Entering . In 2008, however, he relapsed and wrote a novel that was set at the very beginning of Gote's career. Instead of Ghote, the Briton started a new series in 2000, at the age of 73, with Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens of Greater Birchester as an investigator, who has since solved seven of his cases.

reception

HRF Keating also held a special position among British crime writers. In 1970 and 1971 he chaired the Crime Writers' Association (CWA); In 1985 he became President of the Detection Club , a renowned association of authors in the tradition of Chesterton , Christie and Sayers . Despite the great esteem in his homeland, the Englishman was particularly successful in the Anglo-Saxon region. Only some of his Ghote novels and one other crime thriller have been published in German so far.

In addition to his literary works, Keating has also written literary non-fiction , including a book on writing crime fiction ( Writing Crime Fiction , 1986) and a biography of Agatha Christie (Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime) .

Awards

• 1964: CWA's Gold Dagger for the novel The perfect murder
• 1996: Diamond Dagger from the CWA for his life's work
• 1980: Gold Dagger for the novel The murder of the maharajah

Works

As an author

Inspector Ghote crime novels

• The Perfect Murder . Academy Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. 1997, ISBN 0-89733-078-1 (EA London 1964)
• Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade . Constable Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-09-466450-1 (EA London 1966)
• Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes . Severn House, London 1985, ISBN 0-7278-1109-6 (EA London 1967)
• Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock . Black Dagger Crime, Bath 2007, ISBN 978-1-4056-8570-2 (EA London 1968)
  • The peacock has to give up feathers . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970, ISBN 3-499-42187-9 .
• Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker . Severn House, London 1984, ISBN 0-7278-1088-X (EA London 1969)
• Inspector Ghote Breaks to Egg . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1974, ISBN 0-14-003839-6 (EA London 1970)
  • Inspector Ghote breaks an egg . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-293-20299-3 (former title Finger weg von Heiligen Kühen , 1973)
• Inspector gote goes by train . Collins, London 1971, ISBN 0-00-231351-0 .
  • Inspector Ghote is traveling 1st class . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-293-20389-1 (EA Reinbek 1975)
• Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart . Collins, London 1972, ISBN 0-00-231353-7 .
  • Inspector Ghote listens to his heart . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-293-20348-5 (former title Give it up, Inspector Ghote ! , 1975)
• Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote . Chivers Books, Bath 1982, ISBN 0-85119-846-5 (EA London 1974)
  • Inspector Ghote looks for the leak . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976, ISBN 3-499-42378-2 .
• Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1979, ISBN 0-14-004592-9 (EA London 19176)
  • Inspector Ghote goes to Bollywood . Unionsverlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-293-20323-X (former title Inspector Ghote goes to film , 1978)
• Inspector Ghote Draws a Line . Hamlyn Press, London 1981, ISBN 0-600-20249-6 .
  • False Flag Inspector Ghote . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-42543-2 .
• Go West, Inspector Ghote . Collins, London 1981, ISBN 0-00-231289-1 .
  • Inspector Ghote and the Guru in LA Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-42620-X .
• The Sheriff of Bombay . Collins, London 1984, ISBN 0-00-231735-4 .
• Under a Monsoon Cloud . Hutchinson, London 1986, ISBN 0-09-163700-7 .
• The Body in the Billiard Room . Hutchinson, London 1987, ISBN 0-09-170280-1 .
• Dead on Time . Hutchinson, London 1988, ISBN 0-09-173459-2 .
• Inspector Ghote, His Life and Crimes . Hutchinson, London 1989, ISBN 0-09-174232-3 (short stories)
• The Iciest Sin . Hutchinson, London 1990, ISBN 0-09-173745-1 .
• Cheating Death . Hutchinson, London 1992, ISBN 0-09-175189-6 .
• Doing wrong . Macmillan, London 1994, ISBN 0-333-60413-X .
• Asking questions . Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 0-333-66271-7 .
• Bribery, Corruption So . Pan Books, London 1999, ISBN 0-330-37242-4 .
• Breaking and Entering . Pan Books, London 2000, ISBN 0-330-48304-8 .
• Inspector Ghote's First Case . Allison & Busby, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-7490-7970-3 .
• The Inspector Ghote Mysteries. To omnibus . Pan Books, London 1996, ISBN 0-330-34856-6 (Contents: Inspector Ghote caught in meshes , Inspector Ghote's good crusade and The perfect murder )

Harriet Martens crime novels

• The hard detective . Macmillan, London 2000, ISBN 0-333-76619-9 .
• A detective in love . Macmillan, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-90723-X .
• A Detective Under Fire . St. Martin's Minotaur, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-31657-7 .
• The Dreaming Detective . Macmillan, London 2003, ISBN 1-4050-3344-4 .
• A Detective at Death's Door . Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2004, ISBN 0-312-34206-3 .
• One Man and His Bomb . Allison & Busby, London 2006, ISBN 0-7490-8288-7 .
• Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs . Allison & Busby, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7490-8030-3 .

Other crime novels

• Death and the Visiting Firemen . Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1959.
• Zen There Was Murder . Gollancz, London 1960.
• A rush on the ultimate . Gollancz, London 1961.
• The Dog It Was That Died . Gollancz, London 1962.
• Death of a Fat God . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1963.
• Is Skin-Deep, Is Fatal . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1965.
  • To die in beauty . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1966.
• The Strong Man . Heine Books, London 1971.
• The Underside . Macmillan, London 1974.
• A Remarkable Case of Burglary . Collins, London 1975, ISBN 0-00-231712-5 .
• Murder by Death . Warner Books, New York 1976, ISBN 0-446-88161-9 .
  • A corpse for dessert . Moewig, Rastatt 1987, ISBN 3-8118-4865-8 (former title Mord ohne Mörder 1986).
• A Long Walk to Wimbledon . Macmillan, London 1978, ISBN 0-333-23699-8 .
• The Murder of the Maharajah . Hamlyn Press, Feltham 1983, ISBN 0-600-20320-4 .
  • Death of a high-ranking personality . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-42583-1 .
• Mrs. Craggs. Crimes Cleaned Up . Buchan & Enright, London 1985, ISBN 0-907675-48-4 (short stories)
• The rich detective . Pan Books, London 1993, ISBN 0-330-33298-8 .
• The good detective . Macmillan, London 1995, ISBN 0-333-62999-X .
• The Bad Detective . Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 0-333-64994-X .
• The soft detective . Pan Books, London 1997, ISBN 0-330-35402-7 .
• In Kensington Gardens Once… . Jesmond Publ., Newcastle upon Tyne 1997, ISBN 1-873226-23-3 (short stories)
• Jack the Lady Killer . Poisoned Pren Press, Scottsdale, Az. 1999, ISBN 1-890208-24-8 (written in verse form)

Non-fiction

• Murder Must Appetize . Lemon Tree Press, London 1975, ISBN 0-904291-05-7 .
• Sherlock Holmes. The Man and His World . Thames & Hudson, London 1979, ISBN 0-500-01214-8 .
• Writing crime fiction . Black, London 1986, ISBN 0-7136-2869-3 .
• Crime and Mystery. The 100 Best Books . Xanadu Press, London 1987, ISBN 0-047761-25-X .
• The Bedside Companion to Crime . O'Mara Books, London 1989, ISBN 0-948397-53-5 .

Under the pseudonym Evelyn Hervey

• The Governess . Doubleday, New York 1984, ISBN 0-385-19069-7 .
• The Man of Gold . Doubleday, New York 1985, ISBN 0-385-23005-2 .
• Into the Valley of Death . Bloomsbury Press, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-4482-0322-2 . (EA London 1986)

As editor

• Crime writers. Reflections on crime fiction . BBC, London 1978, ISBN 0-563-16287-2 (with Reginald Hill).
• Whodunit? A guide to crime, suspense and sy fiction . Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York 1982.
• Agatha Christie. First lady of crime . Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 1977, ISBN 0-297-77295-3 .

Film adaptations

His most successful novel, The Perfect Murder , was filmed in a British-Indian co-production in 1988.

literature

• Meera Tamaya: HRF Keating. Post-colonial detection . University Press, Bowling Green 1993, ISBN 0-87972-631-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about HRF Keating in the catalog of the German National Library
• HRF Keating in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry at krimi-couch.de
• Bibliography at Fantastic fiction (engl.)
• Bibliography (Engl.)
• "" Inspector Ghote, c'est moi! "" , Interview with Thomas Wörtche
• Keating at Tangled Web (Engl.)
• "Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating" , obituary by Jan Christian Schmidt on CulturMag.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Ripley: HRF Keating obituary . In: guardian.co.uk . (English obituary by a companion)
2. ↑ http://hrfkeating.com/
3. ↑ Brief description of the Unionsverlag
4. ↑ Keating on Breaking and Entering ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ IMDb entry