Feluda one Feluda two.
Satyajit Ray · 1989 · Bengali
Satyajit Ray wrote the Feluda stories for a Bengali children's magazine while making the films he is known for elsewhere. Generations of Bengali readers met detective fiction through them first.
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Detectives, in translation
Crime fiction crosses languages more easily than almost anything else, and it is usually the first thing a publishing industry imports and the first genre it grows its own version of. Both halves are here.
6 books
Himu
Humāẏūna Āhameda · 1993 · Bengali
Humayun Ahmed's Himu — barefoot, yellow-robed, no job, and cleverer than everyone in the room. The most popular character in modern Bangladeshi fiction and nothing like a Western detective.
Piśāca kuttā
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1981 · Hindi
The Hound of the Baskervilles in Hindi. Conan Doyle is one of the most-translated authors on earth and this is the one everyone starts with.
Marḍara ôna Orienṭa Eksapresa
Agatha Christie · 2014 · Hindi
Murder on the Orient Express, in Hindi. A closed carriage, a fixed set of suspects, and a solution that only works once — which has not stopped anyone.
Kala sona
Agatha Christie · 1976 · Hindi
A second Christie in Hindi. She is reliably among the most translated novelists in any language that translates novels at all.
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Hand me a fig leaf [Bengali text]
James Hadley Chase · 1981 · Bengali
James Hadley Chase in Bengali — the pulpier end of the traffic, and for decades the more widely read end.
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