Feluda One Feluda Two

Another of the double adventure packed Feluda stories with quite contrasting backdrops.
When the priceless Napoleoner Chithi gets stolen right under the nose of Feluda along with a murder at Barasat it is just obvious that he gets involved in the case. But he had not visited the aged collector's house for looking into his private museam but on the request of one of his little fans who had pleaded him to seek the wherabouts of his pet chandana. Feluda, found this irregular, and after the murder occurred, he was more than determined to go the depth of the problem. His suspect list seemed to grow like anything including another collector who also wanted desperately to have the letter in his possession, the revengeful secretary who seemed to vanish after the theft, two sons who didn't have a strong alibi. Finally, Feluda did solve the case but the adventures prior to it is as gripping as ever with Ray's masterful description of events that keep the readers glued to the pages. The next story Ebar Kando Kedarnathe takes place, as the name already tells, at Kedarnath and here too Feluda is somewhat coincidentally present at the place where a theft and something more heinous seemed to happen. The eternal lust for money and valuables seemed to drive the villains to raid the unsuspecting monk on whose possession was a prize, priceless to him, but a source of extreme wealth to many. Curiously, the villain is a kind of reflection of the earlier story and though it happens chronologically at a later period of the adventures of Feluda, later than Tintorettor Jishu, but seems the choice of including this along with the other one on the same pack was somewhat dependent on this point.
Apart from the mystery, another important part of the story is it covers Jatayu's ancestry. The description of the Himalayas, among other things, are another attraction where Ray's succint description is again revealed that never misses a single detail without being monotonous at the least.