KEATING, H(enry) R(eymond) F(itzwalter)

(1926-)

   UK writer, almost exclusively of detective novels, notably those featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID. His two sf novels are The Strong Man (1971), a DYSTOPIAN tale of a dictator and the ambiguousconsequences of his removal, and A Long Walk to Wimbledon (1978), in which a man treks laboriously across London to visit his wife just after a DISASTER has devastated the capital.

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