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tasharobinson 's review for:
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
by Maurice Leblanc
Very simple prose, but these stories are a lot of fun. I read this because I wanted to see where the anime character Lupin III came from, and I was surprised at how close the derivative comes to the original. Arsène Lupin is somewhere between a master thief and Sherlock Holmes — in this short-story collection, he solves as many crimes as he commits, though it's largely so he can punish poorer thieves for their incompetence, and their impertinence in taking things he was planning to steal. But it does give this collection a nice range and variety — not just Lupin stealing something new every story, but various stories from other people's perspectives, trying to figure out who among them is the notorious master of disguise, and trying to anticipate how he'll pull off an impossible heist, or how he'll escape prison this time. Entertaining, light reading and a solid classic.