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The Emperors Ring
Author: Satyajit Ray

Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140236927
Pages: 184
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Two gripping novellas of suspense and mystery featuring Satyajit Ray s inimitable detective, Feluda

Feluda, a.k.a. Pradosh Mitter, arrives in the city of Lucknow on vacation with his cousin, Tapesh. The duo are just beginning to enjoy their holiday when a priceless ring, which originally belonged to the Emperor Aurangzeb, goes missing from their host s house. Feluda and Tapesh promptly set off on the trail of the Emperor s Ring, but before they solve the mystery of its disappearance, they must contend with death threats, menacing sanyasis and an animal trainer with murder on his mind.

'A Mysterious Case'' starts out as an ordinary complaint lodged by Dinanath Lahiri whose attache case, containing an invaluable manuscript on Tibet, gets exchanged with a case belonging to a fellow passenger on the train. Feluda and Tapesh are joined on this investigation by Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu, a bumbling writer of cheap thrillers. The seemingly uncomplicated case quickly acquires dangerous overtones a criminal assault, fights and a slew of desperate men plotting out to stop Feluda but the tough and unorthodox detective and his assistants refuse to give up ... until the mystery is solved.