Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar (1880 – 1942)[1] was a Tamil writer of detective fiction in the 1940s.
He is one of the pioneer in detective story writing in Tamil language.
[2] His protagonist, Digambara Samiar, was a sanyasi or holy man on a mission to fight crime.
[5] In 1920 he started a journal called "Manoranjini".
The aim of the journal was to propagate the importance of women's education.