Ars Ne Lupin

Reproduction of the original.

Gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin conspires to match wits with the great Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes in Maurice Leblanc’s second collection of short stories. Brilliantly capturing each character's extraordinary skills, Leblanc offers readers an array of entertaining adventures. The eight tales include “Lottery Ticket No. 514,” “Sherlock Holmes Opens Hostilities,” “Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin,” “The Jewish Lamp,” and others. Mystery lovers will find Lupin and Holmes the most cunning duo in crime fiction.

Based on the popular Netflix series! In the early 20th century, esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc created Arsène Lupin, a French Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief. Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been documented in more than twenty stories and books, as well as in film. In January 2021, Netflix released a major hit in the entertaining Lupin mystery-comedy series based on the stories. The Best Stories of Arsène Lupin is a collection of the most engaging of Leblanc's writing about Lupin, with a special foreword by West Point associate professor of English and writer Matthew Carey Salyer.

The Confessions of Arsène Lupin is the sixth book in the Arsene Lupin series by Maurice Leblanc. A collection of ten short stories including Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!; The Wedding-Ring; The Sign of the Shadow; The Infernal Trap; The Red Silk Scarf; Shadowed by Death; A Tragedy in the Forest of Morgues; Lupin's Marriage; The Invisible Prisoner; and, Edith Swan-Neck.

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES, LUPIN. The year is 1905. Meet Arsène Lupin: a gentleman and a thief. An enemy to the rich and powerful; a friend to the poor - Arsène Lupin will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants. When Arsène Lupin is arrested, the police think it's all over. But the most dangerous place for Lupin is to be behind bars...

The first collection of Arsene Lupin's incredible exploits sets the stage for the later novels, with such classic crime adventures as: "The Arrest of Arsene Lupin," "Arsene Lupin in Prison," "The Escape of Arsene Lupin," "The Mysterious," "Railway Passenger," "The Queen's Necklace," "The Seven of Hearts," "Madame Imbert's Safe," "The Black Pearl," "Holmlock Shears Arrives Too Late"

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes features two adventures following a match of wits between Lupin and Herlock Sholmes. The character "Herlock Sholmes" is a transparent reference to Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories._x000D_ The first story, "The Blonde Lady", opens with the purchase of an antique desk by a mathematics professor. The desk is subsequently stolen, as it turns out, by Arsène Lupin. Later, both Lupin and the professor realize that a lottery ticket, left inadvertently in the desk, is the winning ticket, and Lupin proceeds to ensure he obtains half of the winnings while executing a near-impossible escape with a blonde lady. After the theft of the Blue Diamond, again by a blonde lady, Ganimard made the connection to Lupin and an appeal was made to Herlock Sholmes to match wits with Lupin. Inadvertently, Lupin and his biographer met with the newly arrived Sholmes and his assistant, Wilson, in a Parisian restaurant, and they shared a cautious détente before Lupin sets off to lay his traps. _x000D_ "The Jewish Lamp" opens with another appeal to Herlock Sholmes for help in recovering a Jewish lamp. After reading the appeal, Sholmes is shocked to read a second letter, this time by Lupin and arriving on the same day's post, which warns him not to intervene. Sholmes is outraged by Lupin's audacity and resolves to go to Paris….

As our tale opens, Arsene Lupin is but a memory. We see his picturesque grave, and perhaps we take a moment to mourn his passing. But around us a mystery comes into focus -- a mystery involving Captain Patrice Belval and a one-armed African named Ya-Bon and a nurse we know only as Little Mother Coralie . . .Before the tale has tolled, Arsene Lupin will live again. There are mysteries to be resolved!"