The Perfect
Murder
H.R.F.
Keating
23.7.2012
to 25.7.2012
2/5 stars
The Perfect
Murder by H.R.F. Keating is the first book of the series featuring Inspector Ghote
of Bombay (now Mumbai C.I.D). I had always wanted to read this series, as I had
been recommended about it a lot. But, after reading this book I can fairly say
that I am hugely disappointed. And, I really have doubts whether I will ever
read this series again.
The
characters in this novel were not engrossing. Neither Inspector Ghote nor the
other characters in the books. They were unreal, and somehow weren’t strong
enough to hold my attention.
The plot
was flimsy. For the first 120 odd pages the plot went nowhere, there were no
concrete clues, or no direction in unraveling the mystery, in fact for the
first half of the book I really wondered, that what was the mystery all about.
And, lastly
the language. It was BAD. Maybe Keating had thought that Indians speak English
in the ridiculous fashion as portrayed in the book, but today in India English
is spoken as clearly and eligibly as in any English speaking country.
After I
completed the book, which involved a lot of page skipping, I didn't have any
concrete emotions or feelings about his book. I had problems writing this
review as nothing was startlingly bad or good to remember and write about. For
me this was a mediocre read.
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