Adventures of Byomkesh Bakshi: Satyanweshi Stories

<p>Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries featuring the expert inquisitor Byomkesh Bakshi started a new era in Bengali popular literature. Set in Raj-era Calcutta these stories starring the astute investigator and his chronicler companion Ajit are as riveting and amusing today as they were when they first appeared.<br/>Byomkesh's world is fascinating because of its present flavor with superbly characterized characters and a brilliantly depicted pre-Independence metropolitan atmosphere.<br/>These stories now available in English for the first time in a magnificent translation will captivate every fan of crime fiction young and old.</p>