The Exploits of Juve: Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales

A woman lies murdered in the very room Inspector Juve had been watching for hours. The crime is impossible, audacious, and achingly familiar. Only one man could pull off something so diabolical: Fantômas, the legendary master of disguise and terror of Paris, supposedly dead. But dead men don't commit murders, do they? Juve must now hunt two phantoms at once: Loupart, the cunning crime lord known as 'the Square,' and the specter of his greatest nemesis, whose return would mean catastrophe for the city. Along the way, he encounters a cast of dangerous figures, including Loupart's seductive lover Josephine and the enigmatic Doctor Chaleck, a man who may be either innocent bystander or calculating conspirator. This is pulp fiction at its most electric: shadowed taverns, midnight raids, and the relentless pursuit of evil in its cleverest forms. The Exploits of Juve captures why the Fantômas series conquered early twentieth-century France and went on to influence every detective story since.