Art. Postcards. South Asian Studies. For nearly four decades, Mustajab Ahmed Siddiqui, a.k.a. "Shelle", has been painting lurid, action-packed covers for thousands of Hindi pulp novels--thrillers, social dramas, detective fiction, horror. They're the ones you find stacked up in bookstalls at railway stations throughout North India, written by the best-selling authors in the country: Surender Mohan Pathak, Ved Prakash Sharma, Anil Mohan, Ranu, Colonel Ranjit, and many more. This book of oversize postcards takes you on a journey into Shelle's dangerous world of steely detectives, ruthless criminals and bombshells in distress.

Author City: Amroha IND

For nearly four decades, Mustajab Ahmed Siddiqui, a.k.a. "Shelle," has been painting lurid, action-packed covers for thousands of Hindi pulp novels--thrillers, social dramas, detective fiction, horror. They're the ones you find stacked up in bookstalls at railway stations throughout North India, written by the bestselling authors in the country: Surender Mohan Pathak, Ved Prakash Sharma, Anil Mohan, Ranu, Colonel Ranjit, and many more. This book of oversize postcards takes you on a journey into Shelle's dangerous world of steely detectives, ruthless criminals and bombshells in distress.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pulp-fiction/448718/
http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2009/sep/030909-Shelle-Heroes-Gundas-Vamps-and-Good-Girls-Pulp-Fiction-People-FYI-Mumbai.htm