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![]() Available in English for the first time in a superb translation, these stories will captivate every lover of crime fiction, young and old alike. ![]() ![]() And in ‘Picture Imperfect’, Byomkesh unravels a complex mystery involving a stolen group photograph, an amorous couple, and an apparently unnecessary murder. In the next story, he has to lock horns with an old enemy who has vowed to kill him with an innocuous but deadly weapon. In ‘Calamity Strikes’, the ace detective is called upon to investigate the strange and sudden death of a girl in a neighbour’s kitchen. In ‘The Gramophone Pin Mystery’, he must put his razor-sharp intellect to good use to unearth the pattern behind a series of bizarre roadside murders. ![]() In the first story, Byomkesh works undercover to expose an organized crime ring trafficking in drugs. Book Detail Picture Imperfect And Other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries By PANKAJ GHIYA, 2:35:22 AM Though we have seen most of the stories on screen but. Byomkesh’s world, peopled with wonderfully delineated characters and framed by a brilliantly captured pre-Independence urban milieu, is fascinating because of its contemporary flavour. Set in the old-world Calcutta of the Raj, these stories featuring the astute investigator and his chronicler friend Ajit are still as gripping and delightful as when they first appeared. Written long before Satyaji Ray’s Feluda series, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries heralded a new era in Bengali popular fiction. Classic tales of crime detection featuring Byomkesh Bakshi, the master inquisitor.
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