Shajarur Kanta

The Quill of the Porcupine
Author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Original title (শজারুর কাঁটা) Shajarur Kanta'
Country India
Language Bengali
Series Byomkesh Bakshi
Genre Detective, Crime, Mystery
Publisher P.C. Sorkar and Sons also anthologized by Ananda Publishers
Publication date
 1967 in hardcover Byomkesher diary and in the Sharadindu Omnibus in 1972
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 182 pp
Preceded by Chholonar Chhondo
Followed by Benishanghar

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.[1]

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

Adaptations

Television

  • This was one of the stories of 1993 TV series Byomkesh Bakshi titled "Sahi Ka Kanta",[2] 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

References

  1. ↑ The Menagerie and Other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143061960.
  2. ↑ "Sahi Ka Kanta (1997)".
  3. ↑ "Another Byomkesh Bakshi mystery".
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