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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

by Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941)

A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsene Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsene Lupin series written by Leblanc himself. In an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Sherlock Holmes and Lupin actually meet, briefly in this first volume, and more substantially in the next. But after legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to "Herlock

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Total running time: 5:54:47

Cover design: Kathryn Delaney

Cover art: Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of the Comte de

Rasty ("detail), c. 1900

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