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Une édition de référence de Les Huit Coups de l'horloge de Maurice Leblanc, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Huit jours après leur départ, on retrouvait chacune d'elles en un endroit quelconque de la banlieue ouest de Paris, et chaque fois, ce fut un cadavre qu'on retrouva, le cadavre d'une femme frappée à la tête d'un coup de hache. Et chaque fois, près de cette femme attachée solidement, la figure...
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"The Golden Triangle" as another fantastic mystery by Leblanc featuring gentleman thief arsène Lupin. It takes place during World War I and wounded warrior Patrice Belval is in love with his nurse. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist and writer...
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Based on the popular Netflix series!
In the early 20th-century, esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc created Arsène Lupin, a French Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief. Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been documented in more than twenty stories and books, as well as in film. In January 2021, Netflix released a major hit in the entertaining Lupin mystery-comedy series based on the stories.
The Best Stories of Arsène...
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Arsène Lupin, the monocled Gentleman Thief is a mixture of Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood, stealing from the wealthy and offering to the less fortunate. Those whom he defeats are worse villains than he is. Arsène is a thief, a master of disguise, a rascal but never a killer. He possesses such wealth that he does not need to steal for material reasons but does so for pleasure and he is famous for always getting away with his crimes. The iconic character...
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One of the most popular characters in all of crime fiction, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar long ago joined his (sometime) rival Sherlock Holmes in the criminal literature Hall of Fame.
Created in 1905 by French author Maurice Leblanc for the magazine Je sais tout, Lupin proved to be such a huge hit that the character would go on to inspire no less than 17 novels, thirty-nine novellas and a series of movie and television adaptations that remain...
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Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Forced to change the name of his antagonist following a legal challenge by Holmes' creator, Leblanc still manages to pull off one of the greatest fictional mashups of all time. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Arsène Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery,...
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Gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin conspires to match wits with the great Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes in Maurice Leblanc's second collection of short stories. Brilliantly capturing each character's extraordinary skills, Leblanc offers readers an array of entertaining adventures. The eight tales include "Lottery Ticket No. 514," "Sherlock Holmes Opens Hostilities," "Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin," "The Jewish Lamp," and others. Mystery...
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Arsene Lupin, Master Detective makes his reappearance in this thrilling romantic novel. He returns to a wild island stocked with druids, lost riches, and 30 coffins! Essentially, the complex plot revolves around Veronique, a young woman who travels to an isolated island off the coast of Brittany in search of her kidnapped son. She soon discovers that a terrible prophecy involving herself is about to come true. The island's inhabitants believe that...
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First appearing in 1905, Arsène Lupin is the most famous fictional character of French writer Maurice Leblanc. Gentleman thief and master of disguise Arsène Lupin is a character who often operates as a force for justice but on the wrong side of the law. Similar to Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's fictional character Rocambole and to E. W. Hornung's gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, Arsène Lupin has been described as an inversion of Sherlock Holmes....
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A contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsene Lupin who, in French-speaking countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This volume collects 11 books:
ARSÈNE LUPIN, by Maurice Leblanc
THE HOLLOW NEEDLE
813
THE CRYSTAL STOPPER
THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSÈNE LUPIN
THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
THE SECRET...
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Arsenio Lupin contra Herlock Sholmes es una recopilación de dos historias escritas por Maurice Leblanc. Es la continuación del libro "Arsenio Lupin, caballero-ladrón" especialmente de la antepenúltima historia, "Herlock Sholmes llega demasiado tarde".
Continuación del libro "Arsenio Lupin, caballero-ladrón", el libro que cambió la vida de Assane, el héroe de la nueva serie "Lupin" de Netflix.
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Two brilliant minds face off in this thrilling adventure.
As Lupin's exploits grow ever more daring, the French authorities begin searching for an edge in their battle against the world's greatest thief. They find one in the unparalleled British detective, 'Herlock Sholmes'.
With his brilliant powers of observation and unmatched intuition, Sholmes poses the largest threat Lupin has seen to date. When these two minds engage in a battle of wits, who...
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Marie Émile Maurice Leblanc est un romancier français né le 11 décembre 18641, à Rouen, et mort le 6 novembre 1941, à Perpignan. Auteur de nombreux romans policiers et d'aventures, il est le créateur du célèbre et intemporel gentleman-cambrioleur Arsène Lupin.
La série Arsène Lupin compte 17 romans et 39 nouvelles, ainsi que 5 pièces de théâtre, tous écrits de 1907 à 1941.
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The Secret of Sarek (1920) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Arsène Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time, Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief.
Arsène Lupin is the world's...
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The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin. Translation of: L'aiguille creuse
In a country manor, a terrible noise awakes the household. Downstairs, the estate’s secretary has been murdered. There are signs of a break-in, but everything appears to be in its proper place. What kind of thief would commit murder to steal nothing?
The first detective on the case is Isidore Beautrelet, a precocious teenager who wears a fake beard to disguise...
57) The Three Eyes
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"The Three Eyes" is one of Leblanc's notable science fiction novels, in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians.
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Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès is a collection of two stories written by Maurice Leblanc, about the adventures opposing Arsène Lupin and Herlock Sholmès. It follows Arsène Lupin, a gentleman burglar, notably in the antepenultimate short story, Herlock Sholmes arrives too late.
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813 (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time-Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Arsène Lupin is the world's greatest thief, an unmatched...
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Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout. The first story, "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin", was published on 15 July 1905.
Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Leblanc, with the novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books. The...