β Scribed by H. R. F. Keating
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Inspector Ganesh Ghote is back home in India, on assignment to prevent a murder. A most unusual murder, for a flamingo is the suspected target β the last of four birds presented to the Bombay zoo by the U.S. consul. And Inspector Ghote fails his mission: he is on the scene when the flamingo is shot through the heart. The culprit has escaped unseen, and the Inspector is left to decide whether the killing was an anti-American act or a practical joke.
When he learns of two other very elaborate practical jokes recently played in Bombay β one turning the Derby favorite into a donkey, and the other turning a distinguished scientist into a laughingstock β he gives up politics as the motive. That leaves him with the double mission of finding the joker β and then of finding the jokerβs murderer.
H. R. F. Keating has produced a truly imaginative and intriguing tale β one in which India comes through in full color with a full-bodied story to match β a mystery delightfully worthy of the ingenious and ingenuous Inspector.
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