I have to confess to some excitement at the arrival of the fourth instalment in Frogwares’s Sherlock Holmes franchise; the previous outing – Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened – remains one of my all-time favourite adventure titles. There, we last met Holmes trying to get to the bottom of a mystery straight from the pages of HP Lovecraft; this time around, he takes on another literary figure, although a considerably less well-known one.


The ‘Nemesis’ of the title is one Arsène Lupin, the ‘Gentleman Thief’, the literary creation of French writer Maurice LeBlanc. You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of him, as the 20-odd volumes of his adventures have never really enjoyed a great deal of popularity outside Francophone Europe, where they are still widely read.