Maurice Leblanc

He breaks into the finest houses of Paris, leaves a calling card announcing exactly what he's about to steal, and somehow still gets away with it - because Arsène Lupin isn't just a thief, he's a showman who considers the police an audience. Elegant, irreverent, and always three steps ahead, he turns burglary into performance art. The novel that launched literature's most charming criminal - a character so beloved he outsold his own creator's other work and spawned a century of imitators, from gentleman thieves to the modern heist story itself.