 As such it is one of the first of this category in Bengali literature although not without precedent.The story does follow the pattern of one of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "The Purloined Letter" - object being frantically sought for is placed in plain view and thus never detected.As a character Sharadindu assumed that the average reader would be like Ajit, but in some ways underestimated the sophistication of the average Bengali reader of the time, something he admitted to in a letter he wrote.