Inspector Ganesh Ghote (pronounced GO-tay)[1] is a fictional Indian police officer who is the main character in English author H. R. F. Keating's detective novels.
The novel, which Keating wrote without ever having been to India, won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and was adapted into a film in 1988 by Merchant Ivory.
H. R. F. Keating intended Ghote's final appearance to be in the novel Breaking and Entering (2000), in which he was reunited with Axel Svensson as he investigated a series of cat burglaries that ultimately enabled him to solve the high-profile murder that was occupying the rest of his colleagues.
He also tends to get little respect from the often rich and powerful people he must investigate in connection with his work, though in the end he typically wins the day through sheer doggedness.
Zia Mohyeddin starred in an adaptation of Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock for the BBC anthology series Detective.