Teixeira De Mattos, Alexander

Maurice Leblanc was a prolific French author born in Rouen on November 11, 1864. He had studied law, but abandoned that for a career in writing. He initially wrote for various periodicals, with "Une Femme" being his first published work in 1887. He gained fame in France and abroad after starting his Arsene Lupin series of novels. Arsene Lupin was a gentleman-thief who was a master of disguise and made his first appearance in 1905 in "L'arrestation d'Arsene Lupin." In 1908 LeBlanc pitted Lupin against Sherlock Holmes in "Arsene Lupin Versus Holmlock Shears." Leblanc would eventually produce 20