The Menagerie & other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries

<ul> <li>When in 1932 Saradindu Bandyopadhyay decided to try his hand at detective fiction—looked down upon in Bengali literary circles of that time as frivolous ventures—he scarcely expected Byomkesh Bakshi to become one of the most popular and enduring creations in Bengali literature.</li> <li>The present collection of stories all set in Calcutta of the fifties and sixties brings together four mysteries that put the sleuth’s remarkable mental agility to the ultimate test.</li> <li>In <i>The Menagerie</i> (adapted by master film-maker Satyajit Ray for his 1967 film Chiriakhana) Byomkesh cracks a strange case involving broken motor parts a seemingly natural death and the peculiar inhabitants of Golap Colony who seem capable of doing just about anything to safeguard the secrets of their tainted pasts.</li> <li>In <i>The Jewel Case</i> he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a priceless necklace while in <i>The Will That Vanished</i> he solves a baffling riddle to fulfil the last wish