โ Scribed by H. R. F. Keating
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
High above the sweltering plains of South India sits the tiny hill station of Ootacamund. โOoty,โ as it is known, is quite out of place in modern India: a bastion of the Empire, it remains very British and boasts rose gardens, zebra-striped pedestrian crossings, some โColonel Blimpsโ who stayed on, and the famous Ooty Club. And in this club, filled with silver trophies and stuffed tigers and portraits of the Queen (Victoria, that is), the unthinkable happens. On the very billiard table where snooker was invented, one of the Clubโs servants is found lying very neatly on the dark green felt, dead as a cue ball. Ooty is shocked by the murder (for it so proves to be), and Inspector Ghote, the great detective and lovable bumbler, is summoned to solve the crime.
Ghote finds himself cast in the role of the new โGreat Detective,โ spiritual heir to Poirot and Sherlock Holmes, required to perform superhuman acts of analysis and deduction. Secretly cursing his luck, he dutifully sets about with Surinder Mehtaโhis irrepressible and tireless Watsonโin tow to investigate a true detective-story list of suspects: the efficient secretary, Iyer; the voluptuous Maharani and faithless Maharajah; the mysterious Lucy Trayling; the puzzling Professor Godbole; and the elusive retired railway official Mr. Habibul-lah. Taxed by the ingenuity of the killerโand the oddness of his surroundingsโGhote struggles with the puzzler that is his most charming and hilarious appearance to date.
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