The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont

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The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1899) is a witty detective collection by Robert Barr, narrated by its hero Eugène Valmont, a proud and confident French detective practising in London. Across ten linked adventures Valmont applies Parisian methods, logic and vanity to English mysteries — a vanished millionaire, an explosive political plot, a cursed ancient book, a jewel theft, a spectral séance, a murderer's confession — and repeatedly outwits slower English minds, until the collection climaxes in two delicious parodies: the Sherlaw Kombs and Whatson burlesque of Sherlock Holmes, and "The Adventure of the Second Swag", in which a fictional Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes are themselves made the victims of Valmont's most audacious triumph.