A review by sathyadgs95
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon

5.0

These originals add substantial depth to the prose. I've read that the justification for the 1959 revisions and the subsequently more popular editions of these stories was the removal of crude racial and social stereotypes, and to accommodate the changing role of women. Of course they were sold rather on the premise of an update reflecting advancements in the methods detectives use. I decry the censorship not as a transgression of an individual's artistic expression, although one could certainly argue that McFarlane's work was vandalized, but rather as a revision of our own history and an offense to our cultural heritage. The atrocities of our culture's past aren't sacred, but it is foolish to think they can be wiped out simply by recompiling a banal story around a similar plot line that is void of substance, good or bad. The result is to effect something of a mind-numbing dystopia.