Book description
In a country mansion converted to adult educational courses, Mr Utamaro
is lecturing on Zen Buddhism to a small and not entirely appreciative
audience. But Zen questions and their seemingly quirkish answers
predominate, until they are superseded by two of greater urgency: 'Who
stole the wakizashi?' and 'Who killed Flaveen Mills?'
H. R. F. Keating provides the solution in the same brilliantly humorous
vein which won him so many admirers with his first novel, Death and
the Visiting Firemen
. 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.
