Rambharosar Motorgari

The miserly hardfisted Rambharosa Agarwal, an affluent businessman of Herbertgunj wants to lead a life of piling money but for his wife and son who want to have their own family car. Their insistence gets the better of him and he agrees to purchase one. Happy at the prospects, Suresh, the son, immediately gets some catalogues and shows his dad. But hearing the price of the vehicles that runs in lakhs, Rambharosa is shell shocked. But as he had already promised, Rambharosa cannot take back his word. So he gets hold of an agent to buy a second hand car. With his bare minimum budget of just 10000, what happens next is a hilarious comedy full of merriment and fun. Though somewhat predictable at times, but the best thing of the story is its fast paced refreshing humour with its comically colourful characters that freshens up the mind while enlivening the reading moments.

Rup-Mareech Rahasya

This is one of those books which I read after seeing the detective on screen. Though the couple of stories that are included here is not that is televised still, but it has not been disappointment. Sabar investigates murders in both and solves it in his signature style which is unique than many standard sleuth stories. The analyst in Sabr gathers the intel through his sources but mainly his main emphasis is on the psychology of the crimes which allows him to pinpoint the criminals. The style of the story is again a wonderful variant of the author where dialogues are only used to narrate the story. The sinister ambience is created in a signature style that is not only thrilling but intelligent as well. Infact the first story Rup has a classic twist finally that reveals the human Sabar and the second one Mareech shows how nobly ruthless Sabar can be. A nice volume that will actually prompt the readers to keep up with more sleuthing stories.

Kurie Pawa Pendrive

A holiday trip to the Himalayas proves to be more exciting for Tupur as his detective aunt Mitin stumbles across a pendrive left in a guest house. A sinister plot is exposed but the criminals seem to be off the grid. Infact the loot also seems to vanish. But Mitin picks up bits and pieces of clues and works on her hunches that seem to solve the case. Though intuitions of detectives are sometimes considered fair but in this case the clues seemed to follow her rather than she deducing where to look. Guesses click like anything and sometimes it is felt that the method is not exhaustive but it must be said that the overall mystery is quite interesting. Partha's comic relief shows signature class of Bhattacharya. So the fans of Mitin stories must have a go at this novel published by Patra Bharati. A truly cute pocket book this will effortelssy find room in a sligthly oversized pocket.

Goenda Gargi

The stories of Gargi came to my notice in the bookfair but I never could find confidence in buying a full set of novels without sampling a few. The option came to me in Nandan where huge discounts were being given and I picked this collection from Patra Bharati. The stories by Tapan Bandyopadhyay are quite interesting and fast paced but for the fact that sometimes coincidences play important factors that are disappointing. Also incidents like finding receipts of purchases made long ago in the criminal's pocket, so convenient a clue for apprehending him makes the pieces a bit lame. But the author quite convincingly has portrayed the character of Gargi, a Maths honours student whose logical mind justifies her career and reasoning style in situations where others are baffled. The collecion contains some very chilling stories like Kinkar Hatya Rahasya, Nepathye Ek Atataee while some are quite childish in Grahantarer Pranee and Dhumketu-Rahasya. Some deals with thefts that threatens social relations like Muktor Malae Duto Hirer Tukro, Aparadhi Sanaktikaran while some like Hirer Angti, Danta Antardhan Rahasya begins on a lighter note but quickly turns serious. Dangerous murderer is exposed in Paharkhanir Hire Rahasya while astonishingly evil plots are foiled in Macbeth Antardhan Rahasya that albeit remains quite easily predictable. Maybe due to my increasing age there is an important point that strikes me in the stories which is, in most of the cases the reasoning is not convincing but depends on the actual proof that points to the truth. But in the same breath I will say that these belongs to the genre quite convincingly and must be a must read for the mystery lovers though the contents are not correctly page numbered.