The Blonde Lady
Arsène Lupin Series #2Maurice LeBlanc
ISBN: | 9781514626337 |
Publisher: | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Published: | 20 June, 2015 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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- 1 Arsène Lupin
- 2 Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes
- 3 The Hollow Needle
- 4 813
- 4.1 813 / La double vie d'Arsène Lupin
- 4.2 813 / Les Trois Crimes d'Arsène Lupin
- 5 The Crystal Stopper
- 6 The Confessions of Arsène Lupin
- 7 The Woman of Mystery
- 8 The Golden Triangle
- 9 The Secret of Sarek
- 10 The Teeth of the Tiger
- 11 The Eight Strokes of the Clock
- 12 La Comtesse de Cagliostro
- 13 La demoiselle aux yeux verts
- 13.1 L'Homme à la peau de bique
- 14 L'Agence Barnett Et Cie
- 15 La Demeure mystérieuse
- 15.1 Arsène Lupin, Le Cabochon d'émeraude
- 16 La Barre-y-va
- 17 La Femme Aux Deux Sourires
- 18 Victor, de la brigade mondaine
- 19 Arsene Lupin Vs Countess Cagliostro
- 20 Les Milliards d'Arsène Lupin
- 21 Le Dernier Amour d'Arsène Lupin
- Arsène Lupin, ladro gentiluomo - Le confidenze di Arsène Lupin - La signorina dagli occhi verdi
- L'ultimo amore di Arsène Lupin - Un'avventura di Arsène Lupin
The Blonde Lady
Arsène Lupin Series #2Maurice LeBlanc
This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. "The Blonde Lady" sees Arsene Lupin (the gentleman-burglar) once again meeting his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes. These two great intellects are bound in opposite directions, where one chooses to abide to the law and the other uses his power and wits to crime. Maurice Marie Emile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective, Arsene Lupin. Leblanc spent his early education at the Lycee Pierre Corneille (in Rouen), and after studying in several countries and dropping out of law school, he settled in Paris and began to write fiction. From the start, Leblanc wrote both short crime stories and longer novels - and his lengthier tomes, heavily influenced by writers such as Flaubert and Maupassant, were critically admired, but met with little commercial success. Leblanc was largely considered little more than a writer of short stories for various French periodicals when the first Arsene Lupin story appeared. It was published as a series of stories in the magazine 'Je Sais Trout', starting on 15th July, 1905. 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. In total, Leblanc went on to write twenty-one Lupin novels or collections of short stories. On this success, he later moved to a beautiful country-side retreat in Etreat (in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France), which today is a museum dedicated to the Arsene Lupin books. Leblanc was awarded the Legion d'Honneur - the highest decoration in France - for his services to literature. He died in Perpignan (the capital of the Pyrenees-Orientales department in southern France) on 6th November 1941, at the age of seventy-six. He is buried in the prestigious Montparnasse Cemetery of Paris."
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