THE PLEASURE OF REREADING, BY SHEILA MITCHELL
H.R.F. Keating was one of the great pillars of British crime writing in the twentieth century; he was a crime fiction critic for decades, President of the Detection Club, Chairman of the CWA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author of over fifty novels and ten non-fiction books on crime writing, and winner of almost every award going in crime writing, including the CWA Diamond Dagger. His most famous creation is the beloved Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police, who appeared in twenty-five novels. Endemol Shine India have just announced their intention to develop a multi-part TV series based on the Ghote novels. His wife, the actor Sheila Mitchell, has written his biography and makes her literary debut at the respectable age of 94. Here, she tells us more about the writing process…
