Is there space on serious Indian bookshelves for the silliness of a racy crime novel?

Samyukta Bhowmick

· Nov 17, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Sunday book pick: A train ride ends in murder in Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’

Sayari Debnath

· Aug 04, 2024 · 08:30 am

Detective fiction: Ambai’s private eye Sudha Gupta is on a mission to uncover Mumbai’s underbelly

Ambai Gita Subramanian

· Jul 19, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Thriller: When a photographer witnesses a murder, he turns to a detective to confess his own crimes

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

· May 24, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction’ makes you rethink pre-conceptions about the genre

Jai Arjun Singh

· May 11, 2024 · 08:30 am

How Indian detective fiction has decoded ethnographic puzzles, questioned hierarchical structures

Tarun K Saint

· Feb 19, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Hot Stage’: Anita Nair’s detective fiction exposes the sordid underbelly of a shiny cityscape

Veeksha Vagmita

· Feb 18, 2024 · 07:30 am

Detective fiction: An intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in shadowy city lanes

Anita Nair

· Dec 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Detective novel: Will Lalli be able to find the Kala Ghoda sapphire that disappeared 125 years ago?

Kalpana Swaminathan

· Oct 10, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?

Saptak Choudhury

· Oct 16, 2022 · 12:30 pm

'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

· Jun 26, 2020 · 07:34 pm

When young girls turn up dead in a Mumbai slum, Detective Lalli uncovers an unimaginable truth

Kalpana Swaminathan

· May 23, 2017 · 08:30 am

Before Stieg Larsson and Keigo Higashino, it was Raymond Chandler who transformed detective fiction

Nicholas Rixon

· Apr 29, 2017 · 08:30 am