planning his retirement to Devon when a businessman offers him ownership of a hotel on a tropical island in return for stealing an incriminating file from the Fraud Investigations Office at police headquarters. In September 1999 Flambard Press published his verse novel Jack, the Lady Killer. Non-fiction His guide to Writing Crime Fiction (1986) was based on his analysis of the development of the genre from the 1920s to the 1990s. It includes guidance on fictional structure, the plot and its characters, and on submitting a script to publishers. Bibliography Partial bibliography Inspector Ghote The Perfect Murder (1964) Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade (1966) Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes (1967) Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock (1968) Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker (1969) Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (1970) Inspector Ghote Goes by Train (1971) Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart (1972) Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote (1974) Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote (1976) Inspector Ghote Draws a Line (1979) The Murder of the Maharajah (1980) (Not technically an Inspector Ghote book—it takes place in April 1930 and District Superintendent of Police Howard is the detective—however, Ghote is present in spirit.) Go West Inspector Ghote (1981) The Sheriff of Bombay (1984) Under a Monsoon Cloud (1986) The Body in the Billiard Room (1987) Dead on Time (1988) The Iciest Sin (1990) Inspector Ghote, His Life and Crimes (1989); short story collection Cheating Death (1992) Doing Wrong (1993) Asking Questions (1996) Bribery, Corruption Also (1999) Breaking and Entering (2000) Inspector Ghote's First Case (2008) A Small Case for Inspector Ghote? (2009) Harriet Martens The Hard Detective (2000) Detective in Love (2001) A Detective Under Fire (2002) The Dreaming Detective (2003) A Detective at Death's Door (2004) One Man and His Bomb (2006) Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs (2007) Other novels Death and the Visiting Firemen (1959) Zen There Was Murder (1960) A Rush on the Ultimate (1961) The Dog It Was That Died (1962) Death of a Fat God (1963) Is Skin-Deep, Is Fatal (1965) The Strong Man (1971) The Underside (1974) A Remarkable Case of Burglary (1975) Murder by Death (1976); novelisation of Murder by Death (screenplay by Neil Simon) A Long Walk to Wimbledon (1978); science-fiction novel The Governess (1983); writing as Evelyn Hervey Mrs. Craggs: Crimes Cleaned Up (1985); short story collection The Man of Gold (1985); writing as Evelyn Hervey Into the Valley of Death (1986); writing as Evelyn Hervey