Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-cambrioleur, Paperback Book, By: Maurice Leblanc

Lively, daring, impertinent, constantly beating the commissioner (who here, in this case, is called Inspector Ganimard), dragging hearts after him and putting the laughers on his side, making fun of acquired situations, ridiculing the bourgeois, helping the weak, Arsène Lupine, gentleman burglar is a Robin Hood of the "Belle Epoque". A very French Robin Hood: he doesn't take himself too seriously, his deadliest weapons are witticisms; it is not an aristocrat who lives like an anarchist but an anarchist who lives like an aristocrat. Arsène Lupine, after more than half a century, has not aged. He will never get old despite his top hat, cape and monocle.