Robert Blake (detective)

Robert Blake is a fictional detective character created by Bengali novelist Dinendra Kumar Roy.^[1][2]

Character

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]