Pushpanathan Pillai, better known by the pseudonym Kottayam Pushpanath , is a prolific Malayali

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 author most noted for his detective

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 novels in Malayalam language. He has also written mainstream novels, science fiction

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, and horror fiction

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, and translated Bram Stoker

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's Dracula

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into Malayalam

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.

Most of Pushpanath's work appeared during the period of the 1970s and 1980s. In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes

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 and Hercule Poirot

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, Pushpanath has created two fictional detectives Marxin and Pushparaj. If the story is set somewhere in India

India

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, Pushparaj often takes the role of the lead detective officer. Otherwise, detective Marxin is the main protagonist

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. Detective Sudheer also appears in the lead role in some of his novels.

Pushapanath lives in Kottayam

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Kottayam is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 55.40 km2. It is the administrative capital of the Kottayam district. Kottayam Kottayam (Malayalam: കോട്ടയം) is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 55.40 km2. It is the administrative...

, Kerala

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or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. His son, Salim Pushpanath is a well known photographer and publisher

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. He had published many books on tourism and other India-related subjects.

Selected works

• Chuvanna Manushyan (The Red Man)
• Pharahonte Maranamuri (The Death Room of Pharaoh)
• Draculayude Magal (The Daughter of Dracula)
• Lucifer
• Draculayude Anki (Dracula's Coat)
• Operation Space Rocket
• Thurangathile Sundhari (The Beauty in the Tunnel)
• Devil
• Rajarajeswari
• Overbridge
• Dracula Asiayil (Dracula in Asia)
• Oru Narthakiyude Maranam (The Death of a Lady Dancer)
• Parallel Road
• Draculakkotta (The Fort of Dracula)
• Dial 0003
• Devil's Corner
• Dinosaurs
• Level Cross
• Hitler’s Skull
• Timur’s Skull
• The Murder
• The Blade
• Napoleonte Pratima (The Napoleon's Statue)
• Simham (The Lion)
• Murder Gang
• Red Robe
• Nizhalillatha Manushyan (The Man without Shadow)
• London Kottarathile Rahasyangal (The Secrets of London Palace)
• Monalisayude Ghathakan (The Murderer of Monalisa)
• Kardinalinte Maranam (The Death of Cardinal)
• Dracula (Malayalam translation of Dracula
  Dracula
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• Pandavan Mala
• Rahasyam
• Thandavam
• Aaru Viral
• Chuvanna Neerali
• Death Rays
• Hotel Psycho
• Ladies Hostelile Bheekaran
• Murder Gang
• Nagachilanka
• Nagamanikyam
• Neelaraktham
• The Blade
• Yakshimana
• Durgakshethram
• Chuvanna Kaikal
• Death Circle
• Triple X
• Agnimanushian
• Nalam Valavile Nagasundari
• Mandramohini
• Neelakannukal
• Devayakshi
• Gandharvayamam
• Tornado
• Brahmarakshassu
• Rajkottile Nidhi
• Yakshikkavu
• Project 90
• King Cobra
• The Jeep
• Garudan
• Devanarthaki
• Dead Lock
• Avan Varunnu
• Kazhukante Nizhal
• Computer Girl
• Detective Marxinum Bheekarasthvavum
• Jarasandhan
• Secret
• Deadly Heart
• Bermuda Triangle

External references

• Malayalam-authors
• Hindu article
• Salim Pushpanath