Jason Furman's Reviews > Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

I confess I hadn't heard of Arsène Lupin until the Netflix series (which BTW went from cool to absurd pretty quickly and I won't be watching the second season). I got this Penguin collection of some of the stories and loved it. What I like is they are all told differently: narrated by others or himself, might or might not include a crime, or a solution to a crime, or in many of them both--he solves the crime but helps himself to a generous reward. Some of the twists are easy to see but more because of the conventions of storytelling than anything else. Others seem impossible even in retrospect, unlike Sherlock Holmes where all the clues are there. I particularly liked the three stories drawn from the collection The Eight Strokes of the Clock which featured Prince Rénine and Hortense.

Will definitely be reading more stories or novels, recommendations for prioritization most welcome.