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H. R. F. Keating was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in 1926. He went to Merchant
Taylors, leaving early to work in the engineering department of the BBC. After a period of
service in the army, which he describes as 'totally undistinguished', he went to Trinity
College, Dublin, where he became a scholar in modern languages. He was also the crime
books
reviewer for The Times for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote,
The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an
Edgar
Allen Poe Special Award. He died in London in March 2011 at the age of 84. He is survived
by
his wife, the actress Sheila Mitchell, and his three sons and a daughter.
Visit H. R. F. Keating's website.
Author Mike Ripley pays tribute to H. R. F Keating in his column Getting away with Murder
