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Arsene Lupin

Lupin Review: Season 2

By Hector DeJean

July 7, 2021

In my review of Lupin’s first season, I opened with the difficulty I had in identifying what the show was exactly. Lupin season two is easier to nail down: It’s a show about a man who wants to get revenge in as stylish and dramatic a way as possible. Putting a bullet into the swine who caused the…

Lupin Review, Season 1

By Hector DeJean

February 22, 2021

It’s appropriate that the Netflix series Lupin, a show named after a master of disguise, could be described in many different ways, with few of those descriptions being entirely accurate. Lupin has apparently proved more popular even than the previous Netflix phenomenon The Queen’s Gambit, but it’s also harder to sum up. It’s inspired by…

japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo

Japanese Fictional Crimes and Criminal Fictions

By Ho-Ling Wong

August 12, 2011

It is commonly said that truth is stranger than fiction, and while I won’t go quite that far, I have to admit that the truth can be quite strange at times. Criminals can be extremely creative, with the most creative often being the most successful. As G.K. Chesterton wrote in his Father Brown story “The…

Katsura Hoshino’s Cover for Sherlock Holmes

Poirot and Holmes on Holiday in Japan

By Ho-Ling Wong

July 31, 2011

I had only been in Japan for a couple of days, but I had already perfected my answer to the constant question: why are you studying Japanese? My answer: because I like Japanese detective fiction. Which always leads to discussions about how I got to know about Japanese detective fiction, etc. But one day, I…

Mark Twain

Fingerprints 103: Mark Twain’s Prescience and Crime’s Penmen

By Dr. Lewis Preschel

June 6, 2011

The first American writer to use fingerprints in solving crime was the famous Mark Twain in his perhaps-embellished memoir about life as a steamboat pilot, titled Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883. In chapter 31, “A Thumb-print and What Came of It,” he has a character, inspired by an old “French prison-keeper” use a…

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