Lashon Ka Bazaar / لاشوں کا بازار

Imran Series #12

by Ibn-e-Safi

Genres: Fiction

122 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1956

About the author

Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (Urdu: ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد), a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabian expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous. He wrote from the 1940s in India, and later Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947.

His main works were the 126-book series Jasoosi Dunya (The Spy World) and the 120-book Imran Series, with a small canon of satirical works and poetry. His novels were characterized by a blend of mystery, adventure, suspense, violence, romance and comedy, achieving massive popularity across a broad readership in South Asia.

More information about Ibn-e-Safi can be found on http://www.ibnesafi.info and http://www.wadi-e-urdu.com/

Most of the original first edition title images of his novels on goodreads.com were obtained from Wadi-e-Urdu.com website.

Reviews

[Shabana Mukhtar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Irrespecive of the title, and what rating I give, I love his work.
Ibn-e-safi, the person who introduced me to the world of suspense and thriller at young age of six (ish).
Growing up, it was a challenge to get hold of his books. Thanks to the people who put a lot of effort to digitize all his books.
Since past three years, i read all his 150+ books, Imran Series and Jasoosi Duniya, at least once in a quarter. Yes, that is how much I like his work. Sue me, if it is wrong.

[Areeba · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tbh it was pointless, so many things were not properly explained... If real keli is dead and fake keli(Laura) is the assistant of, what was his name again??i forgot his. Wakefield or something?? So if Wakefield is the real mc Lawrence, why would he bring chaos to the city? It's like he himself created a problem for himself to solve just to get all the properties of real keli Peterson, let's just say all those attacks did not have happened, still keli Peterson (the fake one Laura) will get those properties anyway... Because Laura wanted to marry him...

Let's come to the plot.
The story begins when the attacks begin, the attacks were started from mc Lawrence, which leads to investigation, then fake keli challenge mc Lawrence in the newspaper she used to write... Mc Lawrence loves challenges, so now he's after keli Peterson, which is pointless because keli Peterson(Laura) is his assistant and he knows it... Now since the attacks happened, Laura's husband was kidnapped because the attacks happened. The writing and suspense were written beautifully but the main plot has so many loopholes. Hence 1 ⭐.

[Rizwan Mehmood · Rating 4 out of 5]

اگر ترتیب سے سیریز پڑھتے آئیں تو یہ پتہ چکتا ہے کہ عمران لندن میں تعلیم کے وقت بھی وہاں کے مقامی کیسیز میں دلچسبی لیتا تھا۔ یہ کیس ان میں سے ہی ایک ہے۔ اس کا ذکر پہلے ناولز میں آتا رہا ہے۔ پچھلے ناولز سے تھوڑا ہٹ کر ہے۔ کردار تھوڑے زیادہ اور کہانی تھوڑی پیچیدہ تھی۔

[Lily · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really boring and pointless.. forced myself to finish this book.