Ghurghutiyar Ghatona

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).

Ghurghutiar Ghotona (The Locked Chest)
AuthorSatyajit Ray[1]
Cover artistSatyajit Ray
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherAnanda Publishers
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint
Preceded byRoyal Bengal Rahasya 
Followed byJoi Baba Felunath 

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.

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References
  1. Ray, Satyajit (1 February 2005). Complete Adventures of Feluda. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143032786.
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