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Old 07-19-2021, 10:19 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
I think even one of the Three Investigators mystery novels for children were modeled after this genre.
Interesting. I hadn't made the connection before, but now I remember that one of Enid Blyton's adventure books for children is 100% a Ruritanian tale. The Circus of Adventure, published in 1952.

This is the plot, taken from here:

For Philip, Dinah, Jack and Lucy-Ann, it seems a real bore to have the strangely conceited young foreign boy, Gussy, staying with them for the Easter holidays. But Gussy, it turns out, is more than he seems — and he and the other children are soon in grave danger. Caught up in a sinister political plot in the kingdom of Tauri-Hessia, they must find a way to outwit the villains and restore justice to the country — with the help of their new friends, the folk of a travelling circus!
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