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Old 01-03-2021, 08:16 PM   #29552
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Currently Reading The Hollow Needle, one of the Lupin stories in the Delphi omnibus, and it makes me wonder about France in the first decade of the 20th century. In this story, Lupin's antagonist and near-equal is a 17-year old schoolboy. This reminded me of Gaston LeRoux's Yellow Room, in which the detective hero was an 18 year old who was already established as a star reporter for the paper which employed him. The key difference is that the kid in the Lupin story is tolerable, and does not leave me wishing that he were the murder victim, as the insufferable brat in The Yellow Room did.

That aside, what was going on in France at the time that meant readers would both accept and adore teenage heroes who showed up adult police and judges?
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