The Perfect Murder

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For the Jeffrey Archer story, see The Perfect Murder (short story).

The Perfect Murder
Author	H. R. F. Keating
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	crime novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	249 pp
ISBN	0002316838
OCLC Number	16545741

The Perfect Murder is a crime novel by H. R. F. Keating.

The novel is the first appearance of Keating's serial detective, Inspector Ghote of Mumbai police, in which his investigation of the apparent murder of the Parsi Mr Perfect was assisted informally by the Swedish UNESCO analyst Axel Svensson. The novel, which Keating wrote without ever having been to India, won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1964 and was adapted into a film in 1988 by Merchant Ivory.

v • d • e Gold Dagger Award

1955–1959	The Little Walls by Winston Graham (1955) · The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956) · The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons (1957) · Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett (1958) · Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler (1959)

1960–1969	The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson (1960) · The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly (1961) · When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming (1962) · The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963) · The Perfect Murder by H. R. F. Keating (1964) · The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald (1965) · A Long Way to Shiloh by Lionel Davidson (1966) · Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen (1967) · Skin Deep by Peter Dickinson (1968) · A Pride of Heroes by Peter Dickinson (1969)

1970–1979	Young Man I Think You're Dying by Joan Fleming (1970) · The Steam Pig by James H. McClure (1971) · The Levanter by Eric Ambler (1972) · The Defection of A. J. Lewinter by Robert Littell (1973) · Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price (1974) · The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (1975) · A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell (1976) · The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré (1977) · The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson (1978) · Whip Hand by Dick Francis (1979)

1980–1989	The Murder of the Maharaja by H. R. F. Keating (1980) · Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981) · The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey (1982) · Accidental Crimes by John Hutton (1983) · The Twelfth Juror by B. M. Gill (1984) · Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling (1985) · Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell (1986) · A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (1987) · Ratking by Michael Dibdin (1988) · The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter (1989)

1990–1999	Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill (1990) · King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine (1991) · The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter (1992) · Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell (1993) · The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters (1994) · The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid (1995) · Popcorn by Ben Elton (1996) · Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (1997) · Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke (1998) · A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson (1999)

2000–present	Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (2000) · Sidetracked by Henning Mankell (2001) · The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza (2002) · Fox Evil by Minette Walters (2003) · Blacklist by Sara Paretsky (2004) · Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason (2005) · Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (2006) · The Broken Shore by Peter Temple (2007) · Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield (2008)