> Is there a good source for information on
non-Western
> detectives and mysteries written in non-Western
countries
> from before, say, the 1970s? I've read, for example,
that
> Sir Lanka (then Ceylon) had several writers of
detective
> fiction and even versions of hard-boiled detectives
appearing
> in the 1940s; some of the writers are supposed to
have been "Vanan"
> or "Tamil Vanan," "Devan," and "Vaduvur Duraisami
Iyengar,"
> and and some of the characters are supposed to have
been
> named "Shanker Lal," "Sambu," and "Digambara
Samiyar."
http://www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/academia/academia.html#libraries
has a list of links to library catalogs around the world. You
may have better luck trying a British or Indian catalog than
OCLC.
I found a few hits for "Tamil Vanan" and "Shankur Lal" on
AltaVista, including an essay that gives titles in the
Shankur Lal series, at http://216.32.165.70/style/nov/06gang.htm
You may want to try some variant spellings. I found nothing
under
"Shanker Lal" on AltaVista, for example, but got a handful of
hits with
"Shankur Lal" and a bigger handful with "Shankar Lal", not
they were all necessarily relevant.
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/Regional_Search_Engines/
has a directory of search engines by region. An Asian or
Indian search engine may give you better coverage of regional
web pages.
Hope this helps!
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jess Nevins
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