Mystery of the Elephant God

Mystery of the Elephant God PDF Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181391
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A child who calls himself Captain Spark. The mysterious Machchli Baba. A stabbing in a dark alley... In Varanasi during the Durga Puja, a valuable statuette of Ganesh is stolen from the famous Ghoshal household. Before he can recover it, Feluda has to face the arch-villain Maganlal Meghraj, solve a murder case, and unmask a fraud sadhu. One of Feluda's most hair-raising adventures, this case puts all his skills to the test.

Mystery of the Elephant God

Mystery of the Elephant God PDF Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181391
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A child who calls himself Captain Spark. The mysterious Machchli Baba. A stabbing in a dark alley... In Varanasi during the Durga Puja, a valuable statuette of Ganesh is stolen from the famous Ghoshal household. Before he can recover it, Feluda has to face the arch-villain Maganlal Meghraj, solve a murder case, and unmask a fraud sadhu. One of Feluda's most hair-raising adventures, this case puts all his skills to the test.

The Mystery of the Elephant God

The Mystery of the Elephant God PDF Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Adventures of Feluda: Mystery of the Elephant God

Adventures of Feluda: Mystery of the Elephant God PDF Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143335740
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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A Child Who Calls Himself Captain Spark. The Mysterious Machchli Baba. A Stabbing In A Dark Alley&Hellip; In Varanasi During The Durga Puja, A Valuable Statuette Of Ganesh Is Stolen From The Famous Ghoshal Household. Before He Can Recover It, Feluda Has To Face The Arch-Villain Maganlal Meghraj, Solve A Murder Case, And Unmask A Fraud Sadhu. One Of Feluda&Rsquo;S Most Hair-Raising Adventures, This Case Puts All His Skills To The Test. &Nbsp;

The Mystery of the Elephant God

The Mystery of the Elephant God PDF Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Three novellas of crime and mystery featuring Satyajit Ray's incomparable super sleuth--Feluda. The first novella in this volume, 'The Mystery of the Elephant God', sees Feluda arriving in the temple town of Varanasi with his Watson--his cousin, Tapesh--and his friend, the comical crime fiction writer Lalmohan Ganguli, alias Jatayu, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a prized family heirloom. As Feluda goes deeper into the case, he has spine-chilling encounters with the powerful Maganlal Meghraj and his knife-throwing associate. Though Feluda manages to best the ace criminal in this case, it is not the last he sees of Meghraj. He surfaces again in 'The Criminals of Kathmandu' as the kingpin in a case involving spurious drugs...In 'Tintoretto's Jesus', a chance meeting with a complete stranger whose dog has been killed leads Feluda to an investigation of sinister crime in the rarified world of art...'(His stories) are indeed a striking display of the versatility of Satyajit Ray who proves he is a master of more than one medium of communication.' --The Hindu

Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions

Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions PDF Author: Frank L. Holt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520244834
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Annotation A rare set of coin medallions is used to analyze Alexander the Great's reputation for invinceability in war. The book's backbone is the history of the discovery and interpretation of these medallions, to which are added the extraordinary story of Alexander, and a brief introduction to the science of numismatics.

The Curse of the Goddess

The Curse of the Goddess PDF Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351185877
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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An incident near the desolate Chhinnamasta temple on the rocky riverbank of Rajrappa leads to the death of Mahesh Chowdhury, the head of a Hazaribagh family. Adding to the mystery are a set of coded diaries, a valuable stamp collection that is missing and a tiger that is roaming the streets of Hazaribagh. One of Feluda’s most intriguing adventures, this shows the master sleuth at his best.

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra PDF Author: Vaseem Khan
Publisher: Redhook
ISBN: 0316386790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs...

The Mystery of the White Elephant

The Mystery of the White Elephant PDF Author: Elspeth Campbell Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556614057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Sarah-Jane and her two cousins try to uncover the identity of the mysterious old woman who makes the sock monkeys sold at the local craft store.

Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions

Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions PDF Author: Frank L. Holt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520238818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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"Frank Holt probably knows more than anyone alive about the mysterious Greek kingdoms in Bactria and on the frontiers of India that were one of the odder legacies of Alexander's Eastern conquests. The literary evidence is sparse, the coins remain ambiguous, the topography defeats all but the toughest. Holt's forays into this world are those of a clever and persistent detective: he loves cracking problems, and the tougher they are, the better. This time—very properly beginning by invoking the name of Sherlock Holmes—he has given us what Conan Doyle would probably have called 'The Adventure of the Elephant Medallions.’ Debate has raged over the scene these portray ever since the first was discovered. A cavalryman with a lance confronts an opponent on an elephant. Who are they? What is the occasion? Guesses have ranged from Alexander to the Greco-Bactrian monarch Eucratides, from Porus at the Jhelum to Darius at Gaugamela. Using his numismatic and historical skills like a Holmesian magnifying-glass, Holt takes us through the theories, deftly explodes the fallacies, and comes up with a (for me) entirely cogent and satisfying solution. He has also, somewhere along the way, acquired a really marvelous prose style. Not only is the problem in itself a page-turner; Holt also throws in, by way of introduction, the best short impressionistic account of Alexander's career I have ever read. This is high scholarship at its most exciting."—Peter Green, author of Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography "[This book] brings to a wider audience one of the few contemporary pieces of evidence for the image and ideology of Alexander the Great. While relatively well known to experts in the field, the 'elephant medallions' of the title are far less well understood, and have thus played a smaller part, in popular accounts of Alexander than they probably should. Holt's book offers a well thought out introduction first to Alexander and the Alexander story, second to the entrance of the 'medallions' into modern scholarship, and third to the medallions themselves."—Andrew Meadows, Curator of Greek Coins, British Museum

Once Upon an Elephant

Once Upon an Elephant PDF Author: Ashok Mathur
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 9781551520582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Once Upon an Elephant is a contemporary tale of Hindu deity Ganesh and what happens when worlds, cultures, and stories collide. A whimsical, contemporary retelling of the creation story of Ganesh--the elephant-headed Hindu deity--Once Upon an Elephant is rife with humour and political satire. When the police find unusual boy parts--a young man's head and an elephant's body--they assume a murder has been committed, and the case goes to trial. But the appearance of Vighnesvara, a manifestation of Ganesh with the body of a young man and the head of an elephant, in the courtroom of ultra-conservative Judge McEchern throws things into chaos. Around the world statues of Ganesh are drinking offered milk, and poor Judge McEchern has troubles enough with his carnival court: witnesses who testify in languages other than English, testimony from an accused who grows extra arms at will, and a murder victim, with the head of an elephant, who refuses to stay dead. Ganesh is known as the lord of obstacles, and Once Upon an Elephant is strewn with them, twisting, turning, and thwarting expectations about race, class, and sexuality, all within a page-turning murder mystery. This was Ashok Mathur's first novel; his second novel, The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, is also available from Arsenal Pulp Press.