Arsène Lupin

I think especially because there's so many similarities to Sherlock Holmes and it's sort of a flipped Sherlock Holmes.

I also have read some of the Arsène Lupin short stories, who is sort of a- Another sort of gentleman thief character in French literature from a similar time, I think maybe a time earlier than Raffles.

So that's quite sort of an interesting point of comparison, too.

I also read earlier this year a collection of short stories called The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings, which is a series of late Victorian crime short stories.

Yeah.

This is Arsène Lupin level.

This is Ocean's 15 at this point.

[laughs]

Let him at least, however, be honest.

To every human being, mystery appeals, be it that of the crime cases on which a large part of yellow journalism is founded, or be it in the cases of Dupin, Lecoq, of Sherlock Holmes, of Arsène Lupin, of Craig Kennedy, or a host of others of our fiction mystery characters.

The appeal is in the mystery.

The detective's case is solved at the end, however.

Now... let let me just like preface of what this kind of got oh excuse me not not uh change my excuse me is flash man episode 29 flash man anyway the kind of man he is is that he's the kind of guy that in the late 80s he traveled to india and stayed at a temple for several months and became a monk like like when he was 29 like he just did that on a whim like that's just something he just did on a fucking whim because he's a fucking weirdo um Anyway, like when he was a kid, he liked Agatha Christie and like Sherlock Holmes and like shit like that, which is probably why he likes mystery shit.

He likes Arsene Lupin, those novels.

He's influenced by, you know, the works of Osamu Dezai, like any writer in Japan.

And also a Spanish writer known by Gabriel Garcia Marquez because of his magic realism type stuff.

The universal theme of what is justice, love, and friendship is used as catharsis, placing the heroes against their antithesis.

He is also influenced by the books of Arsene Lupin and Agatha Christie, wishing to give his stories a touch of mystery, end quote.

Agatha Christie influenced a Kamen Rider writer.

That's wild to me.

Let him at least, however, be honest.

To every human being mystery appeals, be it that of the crime cases on which a large part of yellow journalism is founded, or be it in the cases of Dupin, Lecoq, of Sherlock Holmes, of Arsène Lupin, of Craig Kennedy, or a host of others of our fiction mystery characters.

The appeal is in the mystery.

The detective's case is solved at the end, however.

I submit that writers of detective fiction... believe that thinking and women... are incompatible.

To prove my thesis, let me point out that the three greatest thinking detectives of all times, Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, and Arsène Lupin avoided involvements with the opposite sex.

They must have believed that romantic involvement would, in some way, affect their judgment.

At any rate, in today's story, Holmes is concentrating on red-headed males, and we find him and Dr. Watson in their Baker Street flat.

If it's a murder, why did he do it? A grand theft, how did they do it? A great escape, how did he slip through their fingers? Today, a combination of the above, penned by the great French writer of detective fiction, Maurice Leblanc.

Leblanc created a Robin Hood Houdini type of brigand, Arsène Lupin, the very first French rogue, whose very first adventure is about to be related here.

You mean to say if someone swims across this moat around the château, bells would sound the alarm? I'm going to throw a rock in the water and see.

Andre, don't.

Who knows? Perhaps there I shall find some ideas to write about.

I hope they will let me have pen and ink.

[mysterious music] It was in the prison Fontenay that I made the acquaintance with Arsène Lupin.

He certainly did not appear as the master thief of the century.