Species Human | Gender Male Nationality Turkish | |
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Similar Rene Farrand, Haceli, Turist Ömer, Mike Hammer, Yusuf Miroğlu | ||
Cingöz Recai (English: Recai the Shrewd) is a fictional character in a series of books created by the well known Turkish author Peyami Safa in 1924. In addition to his novels of high literary value, Safa also wrote detective fiction using the pseudonym Server Bedii.
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Main plot
Cingöz Recai resembles French fictional character Arsène Lupin. He is a gentleman thief, who steals from the rich. In most stories, his fiance Jale also helps him. Mehmet Rıza (like Lupin's Justin Ganimard) is a police commissioner, who is always on the track of Recai. However, Recai manages to escape. In a fiction written in 1928, Recai acts versus Sherlock Holmes, and in another fiction written in 1935, he is at work against Arsene Lupin.
Novels
Novels which are still being printed are the following.
Films
From many fictions about Cingöz Recai, only two were filmed so far:
