Shajarur Kanta

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]

The Quill of the Porcupine
AuthorSharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Original title(শজারুর কাঁটা) Shajarur Kanta'
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
SeriesByomkesh Bakshi
GenreDetective, Crime, Mystery
PublisherP.C. Sorkar and Sons (also anthologized by Ananda Publishers)
Publication date
1967 in hardcover Byomkesher diary and in the Sharadindu Omnibus in 1972
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages182 pp
Preceded byChholonar Chhondo 
Followed byBenishanghar 

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 in the 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 the Bengali channel ETV Bangla.

Film

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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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