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Old May 28, 2009, 09:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Siraji
Missy, you make me weep. Teen Goenda is a teen-age / pre-teen thriller. Most of the series is simply Hardy boys rip off, though there were some original works.
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"Teen Goenda" was not a rip off from Hardy Boys, but a shameless translation (until the number of books ran out) from "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators." by Robert Arthur, Jr [1]

I was an avid fan of Rakib Hasan until one day I came across an old copy of Three Investigators in the Babu Pura Book Market in Nilkhet. I owe this find to the endless hours of scavenging through the old and second hand books displayed by the hawkers on the footpath as well as the shanty book stalls. I did love the characters Kishore, Musa and Robin who are just clones of Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Robert "Bob" Andrews.
Perhaps it would be appropriate for Sheba, as well as the writer to ackowledge where it is copied from.




[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators
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