His ongoing battle of wits with Herlock Sholmes accounts for some memorable events. Their rivalry leads to a gun battle which kills the woman with whom Lupin had decided to settle down. Devastated by her death, Lupin returns once more to his life of crime. He eventually has his revenge on Sholmes by solving a riddle that the detective couldn not. By outwitting Sholmes, Arsene Lupin is, once and for all, proved to be the world’s greatest criminal genius.