This time Feluda is involved in an intriguing case at Gangtok. At the plane to Bagdogra on a possible holiday trip, Topshe & Feluda meets Sashadharbabu, a joint partner of a perfume company, who is on his way to meet the other partner Mr. Selvanker. But once on the plains, they get the news of the tragic death of Mr. Selvanker. On further enquiry, it was learned that on his way across the moutaneous terrain, Selvanker's was killed by a rolling boulder from high up the cliff that drove his taxi over the edges of the precipice.
As Sasadharbabu prepares for an immediate departure, Feluda gets acquinted to another tourist, Nishikantababu who informs that Selvanker, an antique collector, had bought a miniature statute of a deity bearing valuable stones from him. Curious at this piece of information, Feluda makes an enquiry only to learn that the statue was never seen after Selvanker's death. Sensing foul play, Feluda launches an investigation on his own and soon encounters two more mysterious characters. The 1st is the German photographer Helmut Unger who had shared the same lodging with Selvanker prior to the later's death and whose real motive on gangtok visit seems something else than photography only. Helmut informs Feluda of the 2nd mysterious character Dr. Vaidya, a soothsayer, who had earlier hinted a possible misfortune awating Selvanker. 
The case gets intense from this point as Feluda and the apparently innocent Nishikanta both receives threatening messages and Feluda recovers a puzzling telegram addressed to Selvanker before his death. Dr. Vaidya also comes to the picture and arranges a seance with himself becoming the medium. On the seance, Dr. Vaidya reveals, through his clairvoyance, that Selvanker was killed by his long lost child Virendra. But a dissatisfied Feluda carries on the investigations further and the readers are put in wait for an unexpected climax.
The book once again portrays the brilliance of Feluda's analytical power but additionally Ray excels in his narration of the picteresque Sikkim that can easily be envy to any travel guide. I don't know whether it was meant for any particular age, but whenever I had gone through this story starting from my school days till now, but I had enjoyed savouring it in the same way again and again.
As Sasadharbabu prepares for an immediate departure, Feluda gets acquinted to another tourist, Nishikantababu who informs that Selvanker, an antique collector, had bought a miniature statute of a deity bearing valuable stones from him. Curious at this piece of information, Feluda makes an enquiry only to learn that the statue was never seen after Selvanker's death. Sensing foul play, Feluda launches an investigation on his own and soon encounters two more mysterious characters. The 1st is the German photographer Helmut Unger who had shared the same lodging with Selvanker prior to the later's death and whose real motive on gangtok visit seems something else than photography only. Helmut informs Feluda of the 2nd mysterious character Dr. Vaidya, a soothsayer, who had earlier hinted a possible misfortune awating Selvanker. 
The case gets intense from this point as Feluda and the apparently innocent Nishikanta both receives threatening messages and Feluda recovers a puzzling telegram addressed to Selvanker before his death. Dr. Vaidya also comes to the picture and arranges a seance with himself becoming the medium. On the seance, Dr. Vaidya reveals, through his clairvoyance, that Selvanker was killed by his long lost child Virendra. But a dissatisfied Feluda carries on the investigations further and the readers are put in wait for an unexpected climax.The book once again portrays the brilliance of Feluda's analytical power but additionally Ray excels in his narration of the picteresque Sikkim that can easily be envy to any travel guide. I don't know whether it was meant for any particular age, but whenever I had gone through this story starting from my school days till now, but I had enjoyed savouring it in the same way again and again.
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