This was no ordinary murder, for the victim was Frank Masters, millionaire and philanthropist. The case was bound to attract much public attention. But Inspector Ghote finds that his demands for evidence are met with nothing but lies and evasions.

Inspector Ghote witnesses the murder of a woman with many enemies in high places, and soon he is torn between performing his duties as a police officer and protecting a friend.

Bombay police detective Ganesh Ghote tracks a cat burglar known as Yeshwant with the help of his Swedish friend Axel Svensson. He soon discovers that the burglar is connected to a much bigger case, the murder of millionaire Anil Ajmani.

The incomparable Inspector Ghote of the Bombay C.I.D. is travelling from Bombay to Calcutta by train to bring back a very ingenious and snesky prisoner, a con-man and smuggler of supposedly 2000 year-old art works wich had, in fact, just been created.

Nspector Ghote embarks on one of his strangest cases when he is ordered to prevent a murder - the killing of a precious flamingo in the Bombay zoo. And then there is the racehorse fancied to win the local Derby, which gets replaced by a donkey ... Ghote finds things going disastrously as bit by bit he unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker. But then the fun stops - and Inspector Ghote has a more serious murder on his hands.

Ramrao Pendke, heir to a massive country fortune, is in Bombay recovering from a kidney transplant operation. Out taking exercise, Pendke visits the Ticktock watchworks and is bludgeoned to death. The head of the Bombay police backs the prompt arrest made by a pet officer of his, Assistant Inspector Lobo, who has forced a confession out of Rustom Fardoomji, owner of the watch store. Ghote has doubts about the confession. He also agrees with the relatives...