Shajarur Kanta (Bengali: শজারুর কাঁটা, romanized: Śajārur Kā̃ṭā, lit. 'The Quills 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]

Characters

• Byomkesh Bakshi
• Ajit Bandyopadhyay
• Satyabati
• Debasish Bhatto
• Deepa Bhatto, wife of Debashish
• Udaymadhab Mukherjee, grandfather of Deepa and Bijoy
• Neelmadhab Mukherjee, father of Deepa and Bijoy
• Prabal Gupta, lover of Deepa
• Sujan Mitra, an actor
• Nripati Laha
• Bijoy Madhab Mukherjee, brother of Deepa
• Kharag Bahadur, footballer
• Kapil Bose
• Mother of Deepa and Bijoy
• Dr. Sen
• Dr. Gupta

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

• A film of the same name was made in 1974.
• Another version of the film is made in 2015 with the same name.^[3]

Web series

• This story was adapted for season 3 of the web series, Bomkyesh, by Anirban Bhattacharya. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byomkesh_(web_series)