Surender Mohan Pathak is considered the undisputed king of Hindi crime fiction. He has nearly 300 bestselling novels to his credit. He started his writing career with Hindi translations of Ian Flemings' James Bond novels and the works of James Hadley Chase. Some of his most popular works are Meena Murder Case, Paisath Lakh ki Dakaiti, Jauhar Jwala, Hazaar Haath, Jo Lare Deen Ke Het and Goa Galatta.