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Shajarur Kanta

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Language
  
Bengali

Pages
  
182 pp

Author
  
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Country
  
India

Series
  
Byomkesh Bakshi

Originally published
  
1967

Publisher
  
P. C. Sorcar

Original title
  
(শজারুর কাঁটা) Shajarur Kanta'

Publication date
  
1967 in hardcover Byomkesher diary and in the Sharadindu Omnibus in 1972

Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Genres
  
Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Mystery

Adaptations
  
Shajarur Kanta (2015), Shajarur Kanta (1974)

Similar
  
When the Earth was Young: R, Picture Imperfect and Other, Band of Soldiers: A Year on t, Byomkesh Bakshi, The Rhythm of Riddles

Shajarur Kanta (Bengali: শজারুর কাঁটা) (Lit: The Quill of the Porcupine) is a Bengali mystery novel written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay in 1967. The murderer kills people using porcupine quills thrust from behind into the heart.

Contents

Characters

  • Byomkesh Bakshi
  • Ajit Bandyopadhyay
  • Satyabati
  • Debasish Bhatto
  • Deepa Bhatto
  • Prabal Gupta
  • Sujan Mitra
  • Nripati Laha
  • Subhra Ghosh
  • Bijoy Madhab Mukherjee
  • Kharag Bahadur
  • Kapil Bose

    • Television

  • This was one of the stories of 1993 TV series Byomkesh Bakshi titled "Sahi Ka Kanta", that were recreated for broadcasting on Doordarshan, the Indian National Network, by Basu Chatterjee, and immediately went on to become one of the most memorable episodes.
  • The story adapted into another TV series in 2014 named Byomkesh, which aired on Bengali channel ETV Bangla.

    • Film

  • A film of same name was made in 1974.
  • Another version of the film is made in 2015 with the same name.

    • References

    Shajarur Kanta Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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