The Urdu Sherlock Holmes

The spectacular success of Sherlock Holmes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century spawned a number of detective fiction characters, many of whom went on to become legends. In Bangla fiction, there is Satyajit Ray's Feluda and Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's Byomkesh Bakshi. In Urdu, it is Ibn-e-Safi's Ali Imran, who enjoys similar cult status.

Click here to read my review of the English translation of the first Imran novel.