One of the best new collection of police of all time.

If you like new and concise genre literature, do not miss this wonderful collection. Unlike some detective novels, we don 'not mention the front folds, frowns, the meals eaten by the protagonists or sexual partners of the hero menu.

The stories collected in this book are almost as clean as tales of Jorge Luis Borges, with a fun dimension and an expression of similar quality. Nothing in these guidelines are for use otherwise than suspense and elegance.

And yes: the suspense! it will literally engulf you if you have already read novels Arsene, translations of pulp fiction or adventure stories.

the pages of this book are full of genius REALLY. Often credited, for example, to the talented Agatha Christie the principle of the Criminal narrator because of his novel "Roger Ackroyd."
Error: one of the first (or the first) authors use this method (worthy of Poe, Lovecraft or K Dick) was Leblanc.

The stories in this collection are certainly uneven but they group among them some derision jewels, elegance -I répète- me and puzzles.

The plot of the novel called the seven of hearts is in particular a composition worthy of a Renaissance Czech watchmaker or a great mathematician: during the first part of the story, the twists are counted at the rate of one per page, or nearly so, and we can not imagine what is going to end on this adventure that begins as a new atmosphere to Maupassant - "On the water" - and then went into a spin and comes in to mix burglary, murder, romance, espionage with morbid key.

In fact, this collection is pure Maurice Leblanc. new in it lay the foundation for a myth.

For fans of Sherlock Holmes, bowler hat and leather boots, Tintin, Poe and John Ray (I know, the list is eclectic)!

Devourer of novels over 250 pages, go your way!