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Author : RUSKIN BOND
ISBN No : 9788129142078
Language : English
Categories : Children
Sub Categories : FICTION
Publisher : Rupa Publications
‘He was described as being the size of a bull-buffalo, with a belly that reached the ground and a white moon between his ears, true tokens of the man-eater, as every native of India knows. He was said to have the power of assuming different shapes and to lure his prey by the imitation of a human voice…’ From ‘The White Tiger’ by Alice Perrin.
Selected and edited by Ruskin Bond, this collection of eerie stories is sure to set your nerves racing. Read about an unconquerable, seemingly supernatural man-eater in ‘The White Tiger’; The narrator’s perilous journey in a dilapidated coach in ‘The Phantom Coach’; Sherlock Holmes’ investigation of how a speckled band and a whistle is connected to a mysterious death in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’ and Bond’s own encounter with a Jinn in ‘The Trouble with Jinns’.