Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and possibly the greatest thief in the world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary...
Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and po...
Leblanc's classic 1909 thriller pits France's Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective in a deadly duel over the age-old secret of the Kings of France. Also included are "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late," "Escape Not The Thunderbolt," and a foreword by Kim Newman.
Leblanc's classic 1909 thriller pits France's Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective in a deadly duel over the age-old secret of the King...
Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. In this first of twenty volumes about the French detective, Lupin actually meets the famous Sherlock Holmes. They also met in second volume, but at this point legal problems ended their fictitious meetings.
Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherl...
If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes series, then Arsene Lupin will be another detective series for your library. Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. Arsene Lupin is a cunning gentleman thief who is in a trial of wits with Sherlock Holmes. Thief or detective...Lupin is both. The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective is classic LeBlanc and sure to delight the reader.
If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes series, then Arsene Lupin will be another detective series for your library. Leblanc was a French novelist and short ...
Maurice Leblanc Jean-Marc Lofficier Randy Lofficier
At long last, Arsene Lupin's greatest epic battle is presented in English in a single omnibus volume. Countess Cagliostro (1924) marks the first great adventure of a 20-year-old Lupin, pitting him against the beautiful but deadly Countess Cagliostro, in an attempt to find the treasure of the Candlestick with Seven Branches. It is presented here for the first time in a new, unabridged translation. The 1935 novel Countess Cagliostro's Revenge, never before translated, tells of the lethal Countess's revenge upon a 50-year-old Lupin. The book also includes The Queen's Necklace, a short story...
At long last, Arsene Lupin's greatest epic battle is presented in English in a single omnibus volume. Countess Cagliostro (1924) marks the first great...
Er ist wieder da: Arsene Lupin, galanter Gentleman und gerechter Dieb, der sich selbst aus den gefährlichsten Situationen mit Bravour und Leichtigkeit zu retten vermag. Er ist ein Meister der Verkleidungskunst und betört mit seinem unwiderstehlichen Charme die Damenwelt.
Er ist wieder da: Arsene Lupin, galanter Gentleman und gerechter Dieb, der sich selbst aus den gefährlichsten Situationen mit Bravour und Leichtigkei...
The war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us recall the details in a few lines.
One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter Veronique, when he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a walking-stick which felled him to the ground.
After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, Veronique, the beautiful Veronique, as she was called by her...
The war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us recall the details in a...
Maurice Leblanc Jean-Marc Lofficier Randy Lofficier
Arsene Lupin, the prodigious gentleman-burglar created in 1905 by Maurice Leblanc, has become an enduring myth who, like his counterpart and cherished foe, Sherlock Holmes, has inspired many pastiches over the years. This collection offers two, never before translated Arsene Lupin tales by Maurice Leblanc, plus nineteen other stories, including five written especially for this volume. A host of celebrated writers, such as Thomas Narcejac, the author of Diabolique and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Edgar- and Hugo-Award winner Anthony Boucher, French playwright Andre Mouezy-Eon, Canadian science...
Arsene Lupin, the prodigious gentleman-burglar created in 1905 by Maurice Leblanc, has become an enduring myth who, like his counterpart and cherished...
