Crime fiction author, editor and critic H.R.F. Keating has died at the age of 84. There are many notices and tributes already up on the Web, including the Rap Sheet, Mike Ripley for The Guardian, Mystery Fanfare, Shots Magazine and The Telegraph. I had featured his novel Is Skin Deep, Is Fatal just a month ago for Patti Abbott's Friday's Forgotten Books. Keating is also known for his listing of personal favorites in Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books (through 1986), a fine list indeed of books you should seek out (an update in 2000 was created jointly with Mike Ripley).
Although Keating didn't include his own novels on that list, while you're adding his suggestions to your TRB pile, add some of the titles in Keating's series featuring Indian policeman Inspector Ganesh Ghote. If you want to start at the beginning of the Ghote saga, look for The Perfect Murder, which won the CWA Gold Dagger and was made into a film in 1988.
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