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Cargando... Under a Monsoon Cloud (1986)por H. R. F. Keating
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An oddity among the Ghote series of detective novels. You can see that Keating is interested is 'stretching' the character by putting him on the wrong side of the law (in a murder case no less). But while the scenario is complex and engaging as a story, the response from the character of Ghote is unconvincing. Put simply, the fictional crime fighter with a reputation for dogged honesty and integrity which Keating has built up over several previous novels is altogether too comfortable with being party to the concealment of a crime, and improbably persists with the concealment after the murderer confesses and kills himself. Everything falls into place in the end and the honest Ghote re-asserts himself. The journey, however, is really just a series of pictures through which the characters move and make noises. What is missing - and which could have made this a great novel - is much more of the inner voice, the sense of self-torture, rationalisation and delusion that preys upon the guilty and the innocent alike when called before an 'Commission of Inquiry'. A less moral, or a less clever, man might have sailed through this Inquiry with relatively little inner turmoil as the character Ghote has done in this novel. But the problem for 'Under the Monsoon Cloud' is that Ghote's character up to this point is built around a man of great integrity and cleverness (even if of the slow rather than the quick kind...) who is subject to constant self doubts and periods of reflection. Not recommended as anyone's first foray into the Bombay detective fiction world, but there for the Ghote fans. Although the Ghote fans might notice that the character Desai is married and has four children in the novel 'Insepector Ghote Plays a Joker', but said by Ghote to have been 'never married' in this one. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesInspector Ghote (14)
A man is dead and inspector Ghote knows exactly who killed him. Now if he can just keep it a secret . . . What had until recently been a police sergeant is now lying at Ghote's feet bleeding his last. An accident it may have been, but Ghote saw exactly what happened, and it's his duty to arrest the killer. Isn't it? Or can the inspector better serve his beloved police force by disposing of the body, by concealing a crime? And if he does, will he manage to keep his terrible secret? As an Inquiry begins beneath the first torrents of monsoon rain - will he even want to? 'One of the great characters of the contemporary mystery novel.'The New York Times 'It's the best.'P.D. James No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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