![]() ![]() The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je Sais Tout, starting in No. 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 Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. ![]() 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 Neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman… ( tovább) In total, Leblanc went on to write twenty-one Lupin novels or collections of short stories. 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. ![]() ![]()
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