Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar

Leblanc puts his gentleman thief against a barely disguised version of Sherlock Holmes, and lets the burglar set the terms. A duel between two opposite ideas of what a clever man does with his talent.

Maurice Leblanc

A cricketer by day and a burglar by night, narrated by the friend who cannot quite talk him out of it. Raffles inverted the Holmes formula and made the criminal the hero.

E.W. Hornung