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It took me awhile to get into this book. The story jumps around from character to character and story arc to story arc with only a couple of threads to bind them all. Each arc revolves around a crime, more often than not a murder and each crime is investigated by the brilliantly logical Detective Juve. The book was originally published in 1911 and I would be surprised if Juve wasn’t inspired by Sherlock Holmes. There is a long conversation between Juve and his assistant M. de Presles that seems ripped straight from a Holmes story. On the other hand Juve doesn’t have the idiosyncrasies of Holmes with his only quirky aspect being that he tends to see the enigmatic Fantomas behind all the crimes he’s investigating.

Fantomas is the title character but through most of the book it’s hard to discern whether he is an actual person or a mythological figure that Juve imagines to be lurking behind every crime. As the investigations proceed all the crimes start linking together with evidence from one crime pointing to the next and so on. Mercel Allain amd Pierre Souvestre weave a larger and larger web as the book progresses but the book builds slowly and I was not enthralled in the early goings. It builds to a trial near the end of the book where Juve tries to state his case that one man, in custody, has committed a series of crimes. The reader is privy to information not available to Juve so it appears that his circumstantial evidence can’t possibly lead to his assumption and yet perhaps the writers have thrown us for a swerve. I’ll admit that I experienced some *gasp* moments during the trial.

There are books that start out big but flame out as the story progresses but this one is quite the opposite. It took me awhile but once I got into it I was totally riveted right up to the last page. In some ways the book reminds me of the reveal at the end The Usual Suspects but it’s actually much more open ended. We know that Kevin Spacey was Kaiser Soze but Fantomas remains an enigma throughout. Is he even real? As the last few chapters unfold events from all through the book start to take relevance but lots of questions carry on past the end of the book. Fantomas is a series with over 40 books and at the halfway point I chalked this book up as my first and last but now I’m really interested in reading the follow up.


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Fantomas Penguin Classics Marcel Allain Pierre Souvestre John Ashbery Books Reviews

It took me awhile to get into this book. The story jumps around from character to character and story arc to story arc with only a couple of threads to bind them all. Each arc revolves around a crime, more often than not a murder and each crime is investigated by the brilliantly logical Detective Juve. The book was originally published in 1911 and I would be surprised if Juve wasn't inspired by Sherlock Holmes. There is a long conversation between Juve and his assistant M. de Presles that seems ripped straight from a Holmes story. On the other hand Juve doesn't have the idiosyncrasies of Holmes with his only quirky aspect being that he tends to see the enigmatic Fantomas behind all the crimes he's investigating.

Fantomas is the title character but through most of the book it's hard to discern whether he is an actual person or a mythological figure that Juve imagines to be lurking behind every crime. As the investigations proceed all the crimes start linking together with evidence from one crime pointing to the next and so on. Mercel Allain amd Pierre Souvestre weave a larger and larger web as the book progresses but the book builds slowly and I was not enthralled in the early goings. It builds to a trial near the end of the book where Juve tries to state his case that one man, in custody, has committed a series of crimes. The reader is privy to information not available to Juve so it appears that his circumstantial evidence can't possibly lead to his assumption and yet perhaps the writers have thrown us for a swerve. I'll admit that I experienced some *gasp* moments during the trial.

There are books that start out big but flame out as the story progresses but this one is quite the opposite. It took me awhile but once I got into it I was totally riveted right up to the last page. In some ways the book reminds me of the reveal at the end The Usual Suspects but it's actually much more open ended. We know that Kevin Spacey was Kaiser Soze but Fantomas remains an enigma throughout. Is he even real? As the last few chapters unfold events from all through the book start to take relevance but lots of questions carry on past the end of the book. Fantomas is a series with over 40 books and at the halfway point I chalked this book up as my first and last but now I'm really interested in reading the follow up.
It took me awhile to get into this book. The story jumps around from character to character and story arc to story arc with only a couple of threads to bind them all. Each arc revolves around a crime, more often than not a murder and each crime is investigated by the brilliantly logical Detective Juve. The book was originally published in 1911 and I would be surprised if Juve wasn’t inspired by Sherlock Holmes. There is a long conversation between Juve and his assistant M. de Presles that seems ripped straight from a Holmes story. On the other hand Juve doesn’t have the idiosyncrasies of Holmes with his only quirky aspect being that he tends to see the enigmatic Fantomas behind all the crimes he’s investigating.

Fantomas is the title character but through most of the book it’s hard to discern whether he is an actual person or a mythological figure that Juve imagines to be lurking behind every crime. As the investigations proceed all the crimes start linking together with evidence from one crime pointing to the next and so on. Mercel Allain amd Pierre Souvestre weave a larger and larger web as the book progresses but the book builds slowly and I was not enthralled in the early goings. It builds to a trial near the end of the book where Juve tries to state his case that one man, in custody, has committed a series of crimes. The reader is privy to information not available to Juve so it appears that his circumstantial evidence can’t possibly lead to his assumption and yet perhaps the writers have thrown us for a swerve. I’ll admit that I experienced some *gasp* moments during the trial.

There are books that start out big but flame out as the story progresses but this one is quite the opposite. It took me awhile but once I got into it I was totally riveted right up to the last page. In some ways the book reminds me of the reveal at the end The Usual Suspects but it’s actually much more open ended. We know that Kevin Spacey was Kaiser Soze but Fantomas remains an enigma throughout. Is he even real? As the last few chapters unfold events from all through the book start to take relevance but lots of questions carry on past the end of the book. Fantomas is a series with over 40 books and at the halfway point I chalked this book up as my first and last but now I’m really interested in reading the follow up.