I love how inspiring and petty Sherlock Holmes makes fictional detectives. Whether he’s foiling mysteries, showing up and helping Scooby Doo solve crimes, foiling police work, setting impossible standards, what have you! In this book from 1907, French writer Maurice Le Blanc invents someone somewhere in between a detective and a criminal. Mostly he’s there to propose mysteries impossible for others to figure out and to solve puzzles others have failed to solve. In the first couple stories from this collection, he’s mostly being a […]
What a pity that I am not an honest man!
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief by Maurice Le Blanc