Robert Blake is a fictional detective character created by Bengali novelist Dinendra Kumar Roy.[1][2]
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The Robert Blake series was based on the Sexton Blake detective stories. In between 1898 and 1914, a total of 217 detective stories about Blake were published in Bengali including the Rahasya Lahari and Nandan Kanon series.[3][4] Roy not only translated Western detective stories but, intriguingly, went on to create the popular, London-bred, Euro-centric detective for Bengali readers. Robert Blake is a British investigator, lives in Baker Street, London. He is often helped by his assistant Smith.[5][6][7]
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- ^ Pinaki Roy (2008). The Manichean Investigators: A Postcolonial and Cultural Rereading. ISBN 9788176258494. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
- ^ Janice M. Allan (23 March 2018). Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring 2018). ISBN 9781476633831. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
- ^ "Calcutta noir". Retrieved February 12, 2019.
- ^ "The History of Detective Fiction in India and Abroad" (PDF). Retrieved February 12, 2019.
- ^ "A very ordinary Byomkesh". Retrieved February 12, 2019.