Kottayam: Prominent Malayalam detective novelist Pushpanathan Pillai, better known as Kottayam Pushpanath, 80, died on Wednesday.
He had written numerous mainstream novels, science and horror fiction, and translated Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' into Malayalam.
His famous works are Cardinalinte Maranam, Nepoleante Prathima, Yakshikkavu, Rajkotile Nidhi, London Kottarathile Rahasyangal, Di Blade, Brhmarashassu, Tornado, Gandharvayamam and Devayakshi. A major share of the prolic author's works came out in the 1970s and 1980s.
His son Salim Pushpanath, a wildlife-travel photographer, had died last month. Salim had collapsed at his Anavilasom Plantation Resort at Kumily.