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Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( L ) : Leblanc, Maurice
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The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue—a French Thomas CrownCreated 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’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. Sparkling with amusing banter, these stories—the best of the Lupin series—are outrageous, melodramatic, and literate.
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Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman thief returns in this intricately plotted tale of disguises, loot, and love. Once more Lupin is at large, snatching fortunes from under the noses of the wealthy. But this time he may have met his match . . . and not in his usual nemeses, Inspector Ganimard or Holmlock Shears, but in a bright school student who manages to penetrate his secrets -- and reaches his treasure-trove! But the greatest danger may be the woman with whom Lupin has fallen in love, for she has made him promise to give up his life of crime forever!
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Arsene Lupin may have finally met his match in Deputy Daubrecq, a cunning detective who foils Lupin's most cunning roberies, thefts, and even a kidnapping. Can the world's greatest thief get his act together, save his arrested men from the guillotine, and recover his lost honor?
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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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Selected by Ellery Queen as one of the 125 most important books of detective-crime-mystery short stories!THE EIGHT STROKES OF THE CLOCK
"These adventures were told to me in the old days by Ars?ne Lupin, as though they had happened to a friend of his, named Prince R?nine. As for me, considering the way in which they were conducted, the actions, the behaviour and the very character of the hero, I find it very difficult not to identify the two friends as one and the same person. Ars?ne Lupin is gifted with a powerful imagination and is quite capable of attributing to himself adventures which are not his at all and of disowning those which are really his. The reader will judge for himself." -- Maurice LeBlanc
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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.
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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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"The two boats fastened to the little pier that jutted out from the garden lay rocking in its shadow…"
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Originally published in 1913, this collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men.
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1910. Leblanc is the French author and journalist known as the creator of Arsene Lupin, French gentleman-thief turned detective, who is featured in more than 60 of Leblanc's crime novels and short stories. The book begins: It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship La Provence was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man. The passengers constituted a select and delightful society. The charm of new acquaintances and improvised amusements served to make the time pass agreeably. We enjoyed the pleasant sensation of being separated from the world, living, as it were, upon an unknown island, and consequently obliged to be sociable with each other. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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All four stories in this collection were written by masters of the art of suspense. Baroness Orczy's "The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway" presents a murder committed in full view of the passengers, yet no one can identify the killer. In Maurice Leblanc's "The Mysterious Railway Passenger," a notorious villain dupes the police and escapes with ingenuity and audacity. Freeman Wills Crofts's "The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express" features a murderer who escapes from a moving train while his victims and an innocent bystander are locked in their compartment. In Victor Whitechurch and E. Conway's "A Warning in Red," a man's body found on the tracks could not have been thrown out of the train as supposed by the police. How did it get there?
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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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Large Format for easy reading. More adventures of Arsene Lupin the Gentleman Burglar of Paris.
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Maurice LeBlanc's gentleman thief returns in this intricately plotted tale of disguises, loot, and love. Once more Lupin is at large, snatching fortunes from under the noses of the wealthy. But this time he may have met his match . . . and not in his usual nemeses, Inspector Ganimard or Holmlock Shears, but in a bright school student who manages to penetrate his secrets-and reaches his treasure-trove! But the greatest danger may be the woman with whom Lupin has fallen in love, for she has made him promise to give up his life of crime . . .
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Maurice Leblanc's classic 1906 thriller pits France's notorious Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective in a deadly duel over the legendary BLUE DIAMOND, stolen by Lupin with the help of the mysterious "Blonde Phantom" and which Holmes has sworn to recover at all costs.
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The secret of the Treasure of the Kings of France and an ancient riddle pit Arsène Lupin against Sherlock Holmes and Paris' youngest detective Isidore Beautrelet -- an homage to Gaston Leroux's Rouletabille...