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Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and possibly the greatest thief in the world.
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Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) French author and journalist, was the creator of Arsène Lupin, master of disguises, the French gentleman-thief turned detective. Leblanc was a very prolific writer - he published over sixty novels and short stories.
Michael Sims is the author of Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Take Sherlock Holmes and Raffles, throw in a touch of Hercule Poirot, and what do you get? Arsene Lupin of course. This book contains the very best of the Arsene Lupin short stories, bringing you a very entertaining read.
Originally created due to the success of Sherlock Holmes, Maurice Leblanc suddenly found that he had struck gold with his very different criminal. Lupin has it all, he has no trouble in getting the ladies, is a con- artist, pickpocket, master of illusion, latter day Robin Hood, cracksmen, burglar and a righter of wrongs.
The first few stories shows how Lupin runs rings around the police force, engineering his own escape from prison and other daring criminal expoits, but nearer the end of this book of short stories we find Lupin actually solving crimes by the use of his keen observation and intelligence. Indeed if Sherlock Holmes had become a criminal he may very well have turned out as Lupin.
If you like something different to the mainstream crime novels you will love this book, as the stories are well written, witty and show many facets of the same character. Be warned though, this book is very addictive reading and you may not be able to put it down.
Originally created due to the success of Sherlock Holmes, Maurice Leblanc suddenly found that he had struck gold with his very different criminal. Lupin has it all, he has no trouble in getting the ladies, is a con- artist, pickpocket, master of illusion, latter day Robin Hood, cracksmen, burglar and a righter of wrongs.
The first few stories shows how Lupin runs rings around the police force, engineering his own escape from prison and other daring criminal expoits, but nearer the end of this book of short stories we find Lupin actually solving crimes by the use of his keen observation and intelligence. Indeed if Sherlock Holmes had become a criminal he may very well have turned out as Lupin.
If you like something different to the mainstream crime novels you will love this book, as the stories are well written, witty and show many facets of the same character. Be warned though, this book is very addictive reading and you may not be able to put it down.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not in any chronological order, but acting all the same as a fine introduction to Maurice Leblanc's master criminal, the short stories in this earliest Arsène Lupin collection commence with his arrest, followed just as quickly by his miraculous evasion from justice. The remainder of the other stories lack the ingenuousness and incredible twists of the longer works, but there are some hints here of what would follow - Lupin's run-ins with Inspector Ganimard and his first encounter with his most capable adversary, the great English Detective Herlock Sholmès (Conan Doyle none too impressed by this character); his daring burglaries and his solving of great mysteries, where no safe is secure, no locked room inaccessible and no house is without a secret passage; his romantic adventuring and his boastful relationship with the press, L'Echo de France, making him a figure of legend, setting the tone for what would become one of the most thrilling creations in French pulp crime fiction.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Great stories, silly way of publishing them
24 July 2010
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No question about it, the stories are great! The only problem with this book is that they're stories cherry picked from the other lupin novels. So if you want to pick up the other ones this whole book is just full of spoilers! The description is quite deceptive on this and so is the title. I mistook it for Gentleman burglar. Pick up the full novels instead of this one.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great Intro to the Gentleman-Theif of all time!
18 Aug 2008
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I have read Arsene Lupin in other languages; and this volume is great for those who are curious about A.L. He is definitely more dashing than Sherlock Holmes, and the stories are more psychologically or "humanly" involved.
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