सबसे बड़ी मर्डर मिस्ट्री

by Ved Prakash Sharma, Manish Gupta (Editor)

352 pages, Paperback

About the author

Ved Prakash Sharma was an Indian writer of novels and screenplays in Hindi. He was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, where he completed his graduation from NAS Degree College. Having begun his professional career as a ghost writer, he went on to write 176 novels (ghostwriting around 23 novels of them). Dahekte Shaher (1973) was the first novel Sharma got credit for. He primarily wrote detective novels, among them Kalyug ki Ramayan and Vardi Wala Gunda were his famous works. The main characters in his detective novels were Vijay, Vikas, Raghunath, Alphanse, Vibha Jindal, Keshav Pandit and Raina. According to his Times of India obituary his 1992 novel Vardi Wala Gunda "broke all records and sold 15 lakh copies on the very first day of its release", while the Hindu reported overall sales of "80 million copies".

Sharma also made several contributions to Bollywood, the Hindi film industry in India. His novel Bahu Maange Insaaf was adapted for film Bahu Ki Awaaz in 1985, while Anaam (1992) too was based on his work. Sharma also contributed to two installments in the Khiladi series of Akshay Kumar films—Sabse Bada Khiladi (1995) and International Khiladi (1999). In 2010 Zee TV aired Keshav Pandit, a series based on the character created by Sharma. He founded Tulsi Comics and also created few comic characters like Jambu.

Sharma died aged 62 on 17 February 2017 in Meerut; he had been suffering from lung cancer for almost a year.

Reviews

[Sandeep Tripathi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Abdullah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read

[Sunil Rajput · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gud as always

[Prateeti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Want to read this mysterious book

[Vinod Sharma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Behtarin novel

[Baldev]

I Want Read

[Agrawal Anshul]

Aww

[Nitish]

Bakwas aap

[Shivjeet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Isko kaise read kre

[Friday · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like any other Hindi pulp fiction this book was a page turner. The concept was unique and hence the 2 stars. The style of writing would make you reminiscent of radio plays aired on Vividh Bharati. Though the book was published in 2014 and I presume the story is being acted out in contemporary times, it gives a very old style feeling. There are revolvers and the quirky protagonist Vijay uses words like ama, when he is pissed off. The architecture and locations described are out of the Vinod Khanna era movies. A friend of mine described it a Batman meets Raja and Rancho. You''ll find Monto the monkey who smokes cigars and drinks out of a whiskey bottle in his coat and of course like being playful with young girls.

The plot is very predictive one might think, but wait for it.. the climax will get you.

As a thriller, its not only far from being the 'Sabse Badi Murder Mystery' but also it fails to thrill and there are visible plot errors.

I would not recommend this book to anyone but if one wants to then well, wth.

[Hemant Bhandari]

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[Eman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Cnt read it yet