The present collection of stories, all set in Calcutta of the fifties and sixties, brings together four mysteries that put the sleuth's remarkable mental agility to the ultimate test.
Classic tales of crime detection featuring Byomkesh Bakshi, the master inquisitor. Written long before Satyajit Ray's Feluda series, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries heralded a new era in Bengali popular...
Detective fiction has never lacked devoted fans. The undying popularity of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot vouch for that fact. In the early thirties, a detective by the name of...
... a guilty smile every now and then, re-reading it one more time—and I wonder who should be more flattered: Byomkesh or I? Kolkata Sreejata Guha 20 January 2006 Read more in Penguin PICTURE IMPERFECT AND OTHER BYOMKESH BAKSHI.
When sixteen-year-old Sadashiv is forced to leave his village, he has no idea that he will shortly become part of a legendary band of soldiers, united under the most inspiring Maratha ruler of all time - Shivaji.
The Mystery of the Fortress and Other Stories: A Byomkesh Quintet