Ghurghutiyar Ghatona
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| Author | Satyajit Ray[1] |
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| Cover artist | Satyajit Ray |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Ananda Publishers |
Publication date | 1975 |
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| Preceded by | Royal Bengal Rahasya |
| Followed by | Joi Baba Felunath |
Ghurghutiyar Ghatona is one of the crime short stories written by the Academy Award-winning film director Satyajit Ray, featuring the popular Bengali sleuth Feluda. This is the eighth Feluda story overall and is a part of the second 12-story collections of Ray "Aro Ek Dojon". It is one of the few Feluda stories which does not feature Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu).
Plot
An old man of Ghurghutia village near Palashi invited Feluda to solve a puzzle. The man's pet parrot recites a numeric code which is actually the combination number of his iron chest. The parrot says— Trinayan, o trinayan, ektu jiron. When Feluda solved the puzzle he gave him four rare books of Émile Gaboriau as a reward. The very next day when Feluda is returning towards Kolkata with Topshe, smelled something fishy in the old man's house. He started last time investigation and it revealed that all was a made up plan and there was a murder behind the entire plot.