The
Hemendrakumar Rachanabali starts with a collection of horror stories, the first
being Mohanpurer Sashan. Besides the
title story in contains several others which will give you the creeps as you go
through them. But in Jeebanta Mreetadeha the details are more about one
of the great floods at Contai where the plight of a family and their visitors
are described. The collection ends with Abhishapta
Murti that relates how a cursed statue found half-buried in Konark
terrorizes a family. As the horror series ends begins the adventure Jakshapatir Ratnapuri as observed from
the perspective of Bimal, in which a chance incident at Calcutta directs Bimal
and Kumar on an exciting trail of ancient treasure whose clue is planted in a
curious little riddle. Next comes the best Digvijayee
Napoleon, that is nothing short of a magnificent ode written in prose for
one of the greatest emperors of all times. Not only was the emperor in Napoleon
has been detailed but his astute war tactics, his intellect, his erudite soul
and his passionate patriotism blended with his misfortunes and fortunes – all
have been narrated with a passionate zeal in this prose. The next again brought
back cherished memory of my childhood as Firoza-Mukut
Rahasya was a whodunit that I had earlier read in a book of collection of
mystery stories. The best part of the story was that the evidence against the
supposed criminal was so strong it was left upon Jayanta’s sharp intellect to
look beneath the strata of the apparently straightforward events and unearth
the real culprit and the stolen fragment of the seemingly priceless Firoza
crown. The detective’s adventure continues in the collection Jayantar Adventure that contains a
handful of short stories with Jayanta-Manik and Sundarbabu in action
solving curious crimes as narrated by Manik. It starts with the murder mystery
in Bansai Rahasya that the sleuth
solves humoring the police force. In Kamrar
Mamla, the intriguing plot is shrewdly solved by Jayanta but the escape of
the murderer after the crime was not very convincing. The next Double Mamlar Hamla was a plot where an
apparent suicide turned into a cruel murder mystery. It is followed by the
short but stylish Aprilasya Pratham
Dibase whose title itself provides the clue to the entire story. The making
of a sleuth is Jayanta at his younger days is depicted in the next, Revolver whose title and the opening few
lines are sufficient to provide the main plot of the tale.
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