Detective fiction
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Is there space on serious Indian bookshelves for the silliness of a racy crime novel?
Samyukta Bhowmick
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Sunday book pick: A train ride ends in murder in Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’
Sayari Debnath
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Detective fiction: Ambai’s private eye Sudha Gupta is on a mission to uncover Mumbai’s underbelly
Ambai Gita Subramanian
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Thriller: When a photographer witnesses a murder, he turns to a detective to confess his own crimes
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
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‘The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction’ makes you rethink pre-conceptions about the genre
Jai Arjun Singh
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How Indian detective fiction has decoded ethnographic puzzles, questioned hierarchical structures
Tarun K Saint
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‘Hot Stage’: Anita Nair’s detective fiction exposes the sordid underbelly of a shiny cityscape
Veeksha Vagmita
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Detective fiction: An intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in shadowy city lanes
Anita Nair
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Detective novel: Will Lalli be able to find the Kala Ghoda sapphire that disappeared 125 years ago?
Kalpana Swaminathan
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Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?
Saptak Choudhury
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'In African crime fiction the heroes and villains often exchange roles or are complicit in some way’
Aretha Phiri, The Conversation Sam Naidu, The Conversation
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When young girls turn up dead in a Mumbai slum, Detective Lalli uncovers an unimaginable truth
Kalpana Swaminathan
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Before Stieg Larsson and Keigo Higashino, it was Raymond Chandler who transformed detective fiction
Nicholas Rixon