H.R.F. Keating: Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
In a small, provincial town in the heart of India, a politician's wife has done her husband's career a great service, by dying under suspicious circumstances. That the corpse and the trail have been cold for fifteen years hasn't saved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID from being sent to investigate. But what chance does he have when his chief suspect is so powerful, when the whole district is against him, and when a holy man is fasting to the death to protest his prying? But still the good inspector dutifully goes, carrying just the honour of his police force and a box of double-sized eggs...

H.R.F. Keating: Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg. With an Preface by Alexander McCall Smith. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141194493 (April, 2011), 256 p., £8.99.

H.R.F. Keating: Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Ganesh Ghote of the Bombay CID finds himself sent to a small provincial town, a setting that comes delightfully alive. Ghote's mandate is to investigate a death fifteen years earlier, but he has not simply to find a murderer. he is told to pin the crime squarely on the town boss, a figure of almost despotic power. Nor is this all. The local holy man has embarked on a fast-to-death against any investigation. So as this Swami sinks nearer his end, Ghote, in face of obstruction of every kind, attempts swifly to find his answer.

H.R.F. Keating: Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg. Academy Chicago Publishers, ISBN: 089733177X (December, 1985), 192 p., $4.95.