Created by TamilvananPseudonym of Lakshmanan Ramanathan Chettiar The U.S. was certainly not the only country to periodically go gaga over pulp fiction. In the forties, the libraries of the Indian province of Tamil were crammed with "thuppariyum kathaigal" (detective stories) and a steady flood of crime and detective  flicks swamped local cinemas in the 1960s … Continue reading Shankarlal
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Bharat and Susi
Created by Pattukkottai Prabakar Motorbike-riding BHARAT and "SUSI" SUSHEELA are a couple of young detectives who run the Moonlight Agency out of the rundown Nelson Building located somewhere in Tamil Nadu, India. Also emploted at the agency are receptionist Marikkozhunthu (a.k.a. Madhavi) and "office boy" Ravi, in a series of very popular lighthearted tales by Tamil pulp … Continue reading Bharat and Susi
Narendran and Vaijayanthi
Created by Subha Pseudonym of D. Suresh and A.N. Balakrishnan "Clever girl!" teased Narendran, getting into the car. -- Narendran in "Hurricane Vaij" NARENDRAN and VAIJAYANTHI are a "spunky young couple" who work together at the Eagle’s Eye Detective Agency in India, in hundreds of stories written in Tamil by bestselling Indian author Subha (actually the pen … Continue reading Narendran and Vaijayanthi