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Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( L ) : Leblanc, Maurice
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Maurice LeBlanc became famous for the creation of Ars?ne Lupin, a gentleman thief and master of disguise. LeBlanc was born to a wealthy family, studied law, worked as a police reporter for a time, then found his career as a fiction writer. His first Lupin novel, was hugely popular and set the pattern for his career. While LeBlanc wrote much other fiction, it was the Lupin series which made him internationally famous, the French equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Short excerpt: At dinner the evening before our dear old captain had said that we should see the revolving light on the nearest headland about eight o¿clock that evening and so we did.
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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![The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsene Lupin [with Biographical Introduction]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416vY0G5eFL._SL160_.jpg)
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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It was half-past four; M. Desmalions, the Prefect of Police, was not yet back at the office. His private secretary laid on the desk a bundle of letters and reports which he had annotated for his chief, rang the bell and said to the messenger who entered by the main door:
"Monsieur le Préfet has sent for a number of people to see him at five o'clock. Here are their names. Show them into separate waiting-rooms, so that they can't communicate with one another, and let me have their cards when they come."
The messenger went out. The secretary was turning toward the small door that led to his room, when the main door opened once more and admitted a man who stopped and leaned swaying over the back of a chair.
"Why, it's you, Vérot!" said the secretary. "But what's happened? What's the matter?"
Inspector Vérot was a very stout, powerfully built man, with a big neck and shoulders and a florid complexion. He had obviously been upset by some violent excitement, for his face, streaked with red veins and usually so apoplectic, seemed almost pale.
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The manager went himself, accompanied by Chapman. A few minutes after, he returned alone, running, with every mark of consternation on his face.
"Well?"
"Dead!"
"Murdered?"
"Yes."
"Oh, by thunder, how clever these scoundrels are!" roared M. Lenormand, "Off with you, Gourel, and have the doors of the hotel locked. . . . Watch every outlet. . . . And you, Mr. Manager, please take us to Gustave Beudot's room."
The manager led the way. But as they left the room, M. Lenormand stooped and picked up a tiny little round piece of paper, on which his eyes had already fixed themselves.
It was a label surrounded with a blue border and marked with the number 813. He put it in his pocket, on chance, and joined the others. . . .
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"The two boats fastened to the little pier that jutted out from the garden lay rocking in its shadow…"
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Arsene Lupin returns to a wild island stocked with druids, lost riches, and 30 coffins!
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Maurice-Marie-Emile Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. The first Arsene Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je Sais Tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. Clearly created, at editorial request, under the influence of, and in reaction to, the wildly successful Sherlock Holmes stories, the roguish and glamorous Lupin was a surprise success and Leblanc's fame and fortune beckoned. In total, Leblanc went on to write twenty-one Lupin novels or collections of short stories. The character of Lupin might have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905; it is also possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 Jours d'un Neurasthenique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau. Leblanc also wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux (1919) and Le Formidable Evenement (1920).
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This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains twelve novels featuring gentleman detective and thief Arsène Lupin. Arsène Lupin was the brainchild of French author Maurice LeBlanc (1864-1941), who as a writer of short stories met with little success prior to the publication of the first Arsène Lupin story in 1907. LeBlanc was a contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Lupin stories have been called "The French Sherlock Holmes."
This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin
• Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
• The Blonde Lady
• Arsène Lupin
• The Hollow Needle
• 813
• The Crystal Stopper
• The Confessions of Arsène Lupin
• The Golden Triangle: The Return of Arsène Lupin
• The Teeth of the Tiger
• The Secret of Sarek
• The Eight Strokes of the Clock
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
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Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsène Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to spoil his fun, however, must beware. They are the target of Arsène Lupin's mischief and tomfoolery. A masterful thief, his plans frequently evolve into elaborate capers, a precursor to such cinematic creations as "Ocean's Eleven" and "The Sting" or books such as "The Scarlet Pimpernel." Sparkling with amusing banter, these stories-the best of the Lupin series-are outrageous, melodramatic, and literate. Arsène Lupin is definitely more dashing than Sherlock Holmes, and the Maurice LeBlanc stories are more psychologically or "humanly" involved. Arsene Lupin is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat -- witty, charming, brilliant, sly . . . and possibly the greatest thief in the world. In this classic tale, Lupin comes up against the only man who may be able to stop him . . . no less than the great British gentleman-detective Herlock Sholmes (a semi-parody on Sherlock Holmes, of course)! A gentleman master thief, Arsene Lupin is one of France's most famous fictional characters, the sort of anti-hero who uses his brains and charm to escape from any situation the police may put him in. Maurice LeBlanc's adventure stories, which may have been overlooked because they weren't originally written in English, are fast paced, fascinating, and superbly clever.
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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. In this classic tale, Lupin comes up against the only man who may be able to stop him . . . no less than the great British gentleman-detective Herlock Sholmes! Who will emerge triumphant?
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Maurice 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. What is the Hollow Needle and what frightening power does it confer? Can Sherlock Holmes and Paris' newest crime solver, young Isidore Beautrelet, wrest its secret from Arsène Lupin Lupin? This new edition has been entirely retranslated for the first time since its original 1910 English publication. It also includes Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late, the very first 1906 Lupin vs. Holmes short story, Escape Not The Thunderbolt, an all-new account of the final encounter between the Gentleman Burglar and the Great Detective (written by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier) and a foreword by Kim Newman (Anno Dracula).
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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"
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: M. A. Donohue
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Second recueil mettant en scène Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur au succès naissant, en l'opposant au célèbre Sherlock Holmes britannique inventé par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. La lutte à distance entre les deux hommes est acharnée mais pleine d'humour. Elle se déroule sur deux affaires originales. Lequel remportera la victoire finale ?
Maurice Leblanc voulait, initialement, appeler Sherlock Holmes par son vrai nom. Après la parution de l'ouvrage, Conan Doyle sera vexé et demandera des modifications. C'est ainsi qu'est né Herlock Sholmès. Nous avons choisis, dans cette édition, de lui rendre son nom original.
Les livres classiques édités par Apella Inc. bénéficient de contenus exclusifs additionnels tels qu’une couverture originale, une biographie et une bibliographie de l’auteur, des liens hypertextes pour aller plus loin durant la lecture, ainsi qu’une présentation soignée.