British writer HRF Keating’s acclaimed Inspector Ghote novels will be returning to India, this time in the form of a series. Endemol Shine ...
British writer HRF Keating’s acclaimed Inspector Ghote novels will be returning to India, this time in the form of a series. Endemol Shine India has optioned the rights to 25 Ghote books written between 1964 and 2009, Variety reported. “No details are yet available about the series’ development schedule, talent attachments or broadcast partners,” the publication added.
Who will play Ganesh Vinayak Ghote, the most upright and dogged officer to have ever been on the rolls of the Mumbai Police’s Crime Investigation Department? Murder, blackmail, racketeering, espionage, departmental corruption, fraud – no crime was too daunting for Ghote.
“Timid, nervous and deferential, Ghote was neither a detective genius like Sherlock Holmes nor a streetwise tough-guy like Philip Marlowe,” Mikee Ripley wrote in his obituary of Keating in The Guardian in 2011. “He was always underestimated by his enemies but his great strength was a combination of integrity, perseverance and an overwhelmingly benevolent interest in people.”
Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating introduced Ghote in The Perfect Murder in 1964. While several of the books are set in Mumbai, Ghote also travels to other places for his investigations. Inspector Ghote Hunts The Peacock takes the CID man to London, where he is confronted with a disappearance. In Inspector Ghote Breaks An Egg, he...
