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Excerpt from The Eyes of InnocenceWould you please give your name, madam? Asked the waiter.And he handed the elder of the two travel lers a sheet of paper headed, V illa-pension deg Dena: M ondes, Dieppe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to d...

Excerpt from The Hollow Needle: An Adventure StoryAn Historic Secret The Treatise of the Needle From Casar to Lupin Open, Sesame!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repair...

Excerpt from The Teeth of the TigerThe messenger went out. The secretary was. Turning toward the small door that led to his room, when the main door opened once more and admitted a man who stopped, and leaned swaying over the back of a chair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from L'Éclat d'ObusIl parlait avec une gravité soudaine, et comme si l'évocation de ce souvenir eût éveillé en lui les pensées les plus pénibles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origi...

Als der britische Millionär Mornington in Marokko an einer Blutvergiftung stirbt, wird sein Freund Don Luis Perenna dazu bestimmt, den Nachlass zu verwalten. Es geht darum, innerhalb von drei Monaten den Erben eines Vermögens von 100 Millionen Francs zu finden. Leider gibt es offenbar jemanden, der es darauf abgesehen hat, alle möglichen Erben aus dem Weg zu räumen, bevor Perenna sie kontaktieren kann. Und so muss Don Luis, unterstützt von der...

Excerpt from The Crystal StopperAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such ...

Arsène Lupin ist ein Gentleman, der nur in Salons und den feinsten Kreisen verkehrt. Arsène Lupin ist aber auch ein Einbrecher, der sich mit Ganimard, dem besten Agenten, den die Polizei zu bieten hat, einen Schlagabtausch liefert und dabei ständig die Verkleidung wechselt.

It was half-past four, M. Desmalions, the Prefect of Police, was not yet back at the office. His private secretary laid on the desk a bundle of letters and reports which he had annotated for his chief, rang the bell and said to the messenger who entered by the main door:"Monsieur le Préfet has sent for a number of people to see him at five o'clock. Here are their names. Show them into separate waiting-rooms, so that they can't communicate with...

One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter Véronique, when he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a walking-stick which felled him to the ground.After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, Véronique, the beautiful Véronique, as she was called by her friends, was dragged aw...

THE RETURN OF ARSÈNE LUPINAs our tale opens, Arsène Lupin is but a memory. We see his picturesque grave, and perhaps we take a moment to mourn his passing.But around us a mystery comes into focus -- a mystery involving Captain Patrice Belval and a one-armed African named Ya-Bon and a nurse we know only as Little Mother Coralie . . .Before the tale has tolled, Arsène Lupin will live again. There are mysteries to be resolved!

My excuse for duplicating reports that we all heard from the newsboys is that I can supply something new: I can furnish the key to the puzzle. There is always a certain mystery about these adventures: I can dispel it. I reprint articles that have been read over and over again, I copy out old interviews: but all these things I rearrange and classify and put to the exact test of truth. My collaborator in this work is Arsène Lupin himself, whose ...

One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter Véronique, when he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a walking-stick which felled him to the ground.After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, Véronique, the beautiful Véronique, as she was called by her friends, was dragged aw...

My excuse for duplicating reports that we all heard from the newsboys is that I can supply something new: I can furnish the key to the puzzle. There is always a certain mystery about these adventures: I can dispel it. I reprint articles that have been read over and over again, I copy out old interviews: but all these things I rearrange and classify and put to the exact test of truth. My collaborator in this work is Arsène Lupin himself, whose ...

Excerpt from Arsène Lupin: Gentleman-CambrioleurÎ {>rerm'er comme, et de t'a/firmer ici mes sentiments d'afiectnen3e et fidèle reconnaissance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format ...

Excerpt from Arsène Lupin: Gentleman-CambrioleurÎ {>rerm'er comme, et de t'a/firmer ici mes sentiments d'afiectnen3e et fidèle reconnaissance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format ...

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Excerpt from Arsène Lupin: Versus Herlock Sholmes Next morning, at half past seven, Mon. Gerbois went to the college. At ten o'clock, in pursuance of her usual custom, Suzanne went to meet him, and it was a great pleasure for him to see her slender figure and childish smile waiting for him at the college gate. They returned home together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Arsene Lupin may have finally met his match in Deputy Daubrecq, a cunning detective who foils Lupin's most cunning roberies, thefts, and even a kidnapping. Can the world's greatest thief get his act together, save his arrested men from the guillotine, and recover his lost honor?

This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men. 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 thief named Arthur Lebeau, and seen Mirbeau's comedy ...