The justification of the title is apparent only slightly as the reader goes thru the 1st but the climax in the 2nd really bears a link to the same. That the book contains a couple story is in itself a surprise and the later one is really more interesting than the other. Unforutunately, there is no new title to the later story and thus we have to refer to them as first and second only!
In the first Sunanda, with his band of young adventurers solves the crime somewhat stumbling on the clues, but in the second, his deductions are more like professionals. Also the second one contains a very interesting episode, where it explains the events following one of the earlier stories, whose conclusion posed to the readers several questions as to the fate of the young detective. Infact as I read the story, I started to remember the same from the pages of Anandamela which first introduced me to the young sleuth.
Coming back to the main storylines, the first introduces the plot but finally the motives of the murders remains unexplained. Contrastingly, the other one is more interesting and though the band of detectives is not present, but Sunanda cleverly directs his own investigations with his unsuspecting companion in the correct path.
In both, help comes from the officials during unexpected yet welcome moments and the emotions of the boy detective in distress is very realistically revealed in the final story. Devoid of cell phones and other modern modes of communications, these charming old world scenario make these adventures more exciting.
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