A book that eludes everybody's grasp, including the colonel. Impersonations thefts and even murders are committed for the sake of the book. It calls for a trip to the country estate of Ram Sharma in Ramshankarpur. The colonel has to intervene to trace the murderer and the possible connection with the book, yet he is also totally perplexed by a magic square in it. An opium-addict with an unknown benefactor, an anonymous letter with a challenge to witness a ...