Ruth Rendell of the last 40 years into her work, bringing awareness to such issues as domestic violence. The Inspector Wexford series was successfully televised, starring George Baker as Inspector Wexford and Christopher Ravenscroft as Detective Mike Burden, under the title "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries", with 48 episodes from 1987 to 2000. Rendell praised Baker's performance, stating "It was a marvellous achievement as an actor to make him more and better than the author intended." Many of her other works have been adapted for film and television. She said that Chabrol's 1995 version of "A Judgement in Stone", "La Cérémonie" with Sandrine
Inspector Ghote Naseeruddin Shah played the role of Ghote in "The Perfect Murder". Ghote also appeared in a BBC adaptation of "Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock", played by Zia Mohyeddin. The same novel was again adapted by the BBC this time as a radio drama starring Sam Dastor. Inspector Ghote Inspector Ganesh V. Ghote (pronounced "GO-tay") is a fictional police officer who is the main character in H. R. F. Keating's detective novels. Ghote is an inspector in the police force of Bombay (a.k.a. Mumbai), India. Ghote first appeared in the novel "The Perfect Murder" (1964), in which his investigation of the