Maurice Leblanc - "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar"

I have just finished reading "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar" by Maurice Leblanc. When watching the "Lupin" series on Netflix I became curious about the books on which the series is based. All in all Leblanc wrote dozens of novels and novellas about his fictional gentleman-thief. The book I read is the first one he penned. It was originally published in 1907. Actually it's a collection of nine short stories loosely connected by the narrative harking back to earlier events every now and then. It reminded me of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories and of course of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about Sherlock Holmes. Indeed, the latter makes an appearance in "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar" in the final story of the collection, "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late". Although the book series and the television series only have the name of their protagonist in common, they