The debut collection starring Arsène Lupin, the gentleman burglar who outwits police, victims, and even Sherlock Holmes' thinly disguised double with elegant audacity. Leblanc's French answer to the detective story made the charming criminal a genre archetype of his own.
Sources for Maurice Leblanc — The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Maurice Leblanc — The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin in First Mystery Novels and Stories
Held in the First Mystery Novels and Stories chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842)
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Purloined Letter (1844)
- Wilkie Collins — The Woman in White (1859)
- Wilkie Collins — The Moonstone (1868)
- Charles Felix — The Notting Hill Mystery (1862)
- Émile Gaboriau — The Lerouge Case (1866)
- Seeley Regester — The Dead Letter (1866)
- Anna Katharine Green — The Leavenworth Case (1878)
- Robert Louis Stevenson — The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
- Fergus Hume — The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)
- Arthur Conan Doyle — A Study in Scarlet (1887)
- Israel Zangwill — The Big Bow Mystery (1892)
- Baroness Orczy — The Old Man in the Corner (1908)
- Arthur Conan Doyle — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
- Arthur Conan Doyle — The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
- Fergus Hume — The Green Mummy (1908)