THE MOVING SHADOW (PB)

Disappearing corpses. Scientists who are spies.Maniacal murderers. Brooding remorseless detectives. Love triangles and murders. A robot that falls in love. Secrets of the dead and the departed. Sex romance and betrayal. All these and more are to be found in these eight novellas and stories featuring spies criminals ghosts black-magic practitioners and of course femmes fatales. These are the finest examples of a long tradition of pulp fiction that has always lurked in dark corners within the hallowed precincts of Bengali literature.Written by brilliant mainstream as well as pulp fiction writers from India and Bangladesh including Premendra Mitra Satyajit Ray Muhammed Zafar Iqbal Gobindolal Bandyopadhyay and the redoubtable Swapan Kumar the stories in The Moving Shadow: Electrifying Bengali Pulp Fiction give the reader a dazzling introduction to noir from the land of the bhodrolok.