A successor to earlier Volume 1, this work carries nineteen memorable tales of detection featuring Satyajit Ray’s master sleuth, Feluda. All the Feluda stories that Ray wrote are now available together in a two-volume omnibus edition. For the first time, the stories are arranged in chronological order of composition. This second volume shows Feluda at the peak of his sleuthing career. He is at his inimitable best as he tracks down the last known letter of Napoleon, or investigates a sinister crime that has to do with Tintoretto’s painting of Jesus. In The Case of Apsara Theatre, Feluda foils the insidious plans of a clever murderer, and in The House of Death, he investigates the theft of a priceless manuscript. Maganlal Meghraj, Feluda’s arch-enemy, reappears in The Criminals of Kathmandu as the kingpin in a case involving spurious drugs, and again in The Mystery of the Pink Pearl, but Feluda is equal to the challenge. Also included here are the two final Feluda cases, Robertson’s Ruby and The Magical Mystery, both of which were published posthumously. Between 1965 and 1992, Satyajit Ray wrote a total of thirty-five Feluda stories, featuring the master sleuth Pradosh C Mitter, his assistant Topshe, and Lalmohan Babu alias Jatayu, a bumbling writer of crime fiction. The locales range from Gangtok and Varanasi to Jaisalmer and Ellora, apart from Feluda’s home town of Calcutta. The plots involve murder, intrigue and adventure, narrated in a racy, humorous style. All of this makes for enormously entertaining fare – and it is no wonder that each Feluda book has been a best-seller. This is the definitive Feluda collection – a treasury that all fans of mystery writing will want to possess. Translated from the Bengali by Gopa Majumdar and Chitrita Bannerji.
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